“My parents believed that if you couldn't put it in a test tube, it didn't exist.”
Steven M. Greer (1955) American ufologist
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“My mother is a great hunter — she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.”
Kirsten Gillibrand (1966) United States Senator from New York
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Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923) German physicist
The New Marvel in Photography (1896)
Context: I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench there. I had been passing a current through the tube, and I noticed a peculiar black line across the paper. … The effect was one which could only be produced, in ordinary parlance, by the passage of light. No light could come from the tube, because the shield which covered it was impervious to any light known, even that of the electric arc. … I did not think; I investigated. I assumed that the effect must have come from the tube, since its character indicated that it could come from nowhere else. I tested it. In a few minutes there was no doubt about it. Rays were coming from the tube which had a luminescent effect upon the paper. I tried it successfully at greater and greater distances, even at two metres. It seemed at first a new kind of invisible light. It was clearly something new, something unrecorded.
“It's probably nice to know your parents were once not your parents.”
Richard Ford (1944) American novelist and short story writer
Source: Wildlife (1990), p. 44