If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.

~ Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

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I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

~ Douglas Coupland

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The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

~ Ernest Rutherford

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