Forward Quote by Rainer Weiss

Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms…

— William Henry Bragg

“To become an effective radiation researcher, you must develop the ability to discern fact from fiction.”

— Steven Magee

When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation…

— Charles Glover Barkla

“Scientific advances are enabled by a technology advance that allows us to see what we have not been able to see before.”

— Ray Kurzweil

For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it…

— Max von Laue

[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to…

— Walead Beshty

At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.

— Norman Wisdom

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays..

— William Cecil Dampier

“To produce a valuable observation, one has first to have an idea of what to observe, a preconception of what is possible. Scientific advances…

— François Jacob

We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes,…

— J. W. N. Sullivan

“So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for centuries.”

— Diane Setterfield

“As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.”

— Andy Weir