Quotes From Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

I did not think, I experimented. Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. If the hand be held between the discharged 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. For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing on the discovery of x-ray photography. There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy. We shall see what we shall see. We have the start now, the developments will follow in time.