Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.

- Wilhelm Rontgen

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)

- Wilhelm Rontgen

I did not think; I experimented.

- Wilhelm Rontgen

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 ha…

- Wilhelm Rontgen

Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acqua…

- Wilhelm Rontgen

There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy.

- Wilhelm Rontgen