As the cathode rays carry a charge of negative electricity, are deflected by an electrostatic force as if they were negatively electrified, and are a…

- Joseph John Thomson

A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.

- Joseph John Thomson

The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring …

- Joseph John Thomson

The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!

- Joseph John Thomson

If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the o…

- Joseph John Thomson

This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of appl…

- Joseph John Thomson

As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon; in th…

- Joseph John Thomson

I venture to give an alternative method of regarding the processes occurring in the electric field, which I have often found useful and which is, fro…

- Joseph John Thomson

The whole mass of any body is just the mass of ether surrounding the body which is carried along by the Faraday tubes associated with the atoms of th…

- Joseph John Thomson