I did not think I experimented.

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

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.

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'.