*PALL MALL GAZETTE (MARCH, 1896):

"We are sick of the Roentgen rays. It is now said, and we hope untruly, that Mr. Edison has discovered a substance - tungstate of calcium is its revolting name - which is potential (whatever that means) to the said rays. The consequence appears to be that you can see other people's bones with the naked eye and also see through eight inches of solid wood. On the revolting indecency of this, there is no need to dwell. But what we seriously put before the attention of the government is that the moment this comes into anything like general use it will call for legislative restriction of the severest kind. Perhaps the best thing would be for all civilised countries to combine to burn all the works on the Roentgen rays, execute the discoverers and corner all the tungstate in the world and whelm it in the middle of the ocean. Let the fish contemplate each others' bones if they like but not us."

 *Cited from Lord (Peter) Ritchie Calder's (1906 -- 1982) "Profile of Science", George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London,1951, pp.41.

Quotation from Ritchie Calder's "Profile of Science"

"The pre-requisites of discovery are The Method, The Man and The Moment"

"If The Man does not have the Method he will miss The Moment"