William Crookes

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Sir William Crookes (June 17, 1832 – April 4, 1919) was an English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube.

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  • To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science.
    • in his Presidential Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, published in The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, vol. 78. 1898. 

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