William Crookes Quotes

The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state, where the corpuscular theory of light may be true, and where light does not always move in straight lines, but where we can never enter, and with which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside.

William Crookes

Quotes to Explore

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Walter Scott
- Time
- Age
- Cheer
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

Iris Murdoch
- Important
- Bad
- Review
My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'

KaDee Strickland
- Born
- Name
- Fathers
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

Harriet Ann Jacobs
- Children
- Mom
- Name
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Walter Scott
- Empty
- Farmer
- Barn
Social Security is fundamentally strong.

Ted Deutch
- Strong
- Security
- Social