Quotes about x-ray (16 Quotes)




    There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

    No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

    My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.


    I went to a Jesuit school as an undergraduate, and that helped me gain a deep appreciation for philosophy, ... The general mentality of most engineers is that if we can invent something, we should. It's not that simple. At Heathrow airport they are debating the use of new X-ray technology that electronically disrobes a person and shows their naked image. Government power is something that's easy to abuse, and many people are raising questions about invasion of privacy.

    I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.

    Since I was born I had assumed that the world ran on very simple lines, like a larger version of our church. Now I was finding that even the church was sometimes confused. This was a problem. But not one I chose to deal with for many years more. The problem there and then was what was going to happen to me. The Victoria Hospital was big and frightening, and I couldn't even sing to any effect because I couldn't hear what I was singing. There was nothing to read except some dental notices and an instruction leaflet for the X-ray machine. I tried to build an igloo out of the orange peel but it kept falling down and even when I stood up I didn't have an Eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about 'How Eskimo Got Eaten', which made me even more miserable. It's always the same with diversions you get involved.


    I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.


    This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

    I didn't get a real conclusive answer. I don't know if an X-ray is pertinent. I know he's got full stability and everything like that. He showed up a little bit more swollen than what would probably allow him to play comfortably. That's probably the best way to put it.






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