William Crookes Quotes
- To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is…
- ...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she…
- Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as…
- The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state, where the corpuscular…
- Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow limits... when we…
- Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our…
- England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited…