Optics Quotes

“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that Galilei ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that Copernicus ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that Kepler discovered his three laws—discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that Newton gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that Euclid, Cavalieri, Descartes, and Leibniz, almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of Galvani, Volta, Franklin and Morse, of Trevithick, Watt and Fulton and of all the pioneers of progress—that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that Æschylus and Shakespeare, Burns, and Beranger, Goethe and Schiller, and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God?”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“He knew not only WHAT to wear, but HOW to wear it.”
― Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

“It will reward enough for me if, by the publication of the present experiment, I have directed the attention of investigators to this subject, which still promises much for physical optics and appears to open a new field.”
― Joseph Von Fraunhofer

“He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam

“The way they talked about what happened, Mary said, was almost more important than what had happened.”
― David Duchovny, Truly Like Lightning

“Scarlett activated the viola and it came down like short shimmering curtain that covered her eyes with a band of violet light. It dilated her eyes, increasing her binocular summation so that everything in her field of vision was magnified and clear. It also protected her retinas from any sort of laser fire or plasma flash.”
― April Adams, Drawing the Dragon

“David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.”
― Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord

“54. Long before either wave or particle, some (Pythagoras, Euclid, Hipparchus) thought that our eyes emitted some kind of substance that illuminated, or "felt," what we saw. (Aristotle pointed out that this hypothesis runs into trouble at night, as objects become invisible despite the eyes' purported power.) Others, like Epicurus, proposed the inverse--that objects themselves project a kind of ray that reaches out toward the eye, as if they were looking at us (and surely some of them are). Plato split the difference, and postulated that a "visual fire" burns between our eyes and that which they behold. This still seems fair enough.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“The author relates that Mickey Mantle did not expect to play one day and showed up extremely hung over. He was nevertheless called on to pitch and smashed a towering home run to an enthusiastic ovation. He related to his teammates, "Those people don't know how tough that was.”
― Jim Bouton, Ball Four

“Snow cleaning of the world's largest telescope mirrors was an impressive sight. The optics technicians would climb into a huge telescopic boom lift and spray immense clouds of cold carbon dioxide snow and gas onto the ten meter diameter mirrors high above the floor indoors. It would cause some of the accumulated dirt to magically fall off, leaving it less dirty.”
― Steven Magee

“A brand messaging strategist focuses on the authenticity, authority, optics, psychology and perceptions of a brand, persona or product.”
― Loren Weisman

“I consider myself fortunate that I was an electronics engineer and not an optics engineer, as it was the optics team that was discharging massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the indoor environment at the Mauna Kea Observatories.”
― Steven Magee

“The truth is that contentment is an inside job. So is authenticity. Validation doesn't come from magazines, blogs, Facebook feeds, or even your best friends. It doesn't come from looking like you have it all together online. It's easy to spend our time trying to manufacture the visuals of contentment, or longing for the images of happiness that permeate social media. It's harder, but more rewarding, to dig into our own lives to do the work...

...That's what raging against the minivan has come to mean to me. It's the quiet rebellion against obsessing over the optics and outcomes of motherhood...”
― Kristen Howerton, Rage Against the Minivan: Learning to Parent Without Perfection

“Nourish your audience with authentic content that highlights your authority instead of feeding them cheap click bait.”
― Loren Weisman

“I consider my low exposure to industrial carbon dioxide in professional astronomy to be a good thing, as opposed to the optics department that routinely worked with it.”
― Steven Magee

“Are the ingredients of your story coming from an all natural narrative? Or is the majority of your story packed with artificial fillers of false hype, excessive claims, other peoples authority and copycat marketing? Consider giving your audience and potential audience something authentic and natural to digest.”
― Loren Weisman

“From the outside all seemed in order; closer examination revealed chaos. Cleanliness and order were the colony's first concern. But imagine a house in which the people and the food are freezing. Imagine a cow which is maintained like a rifle, but whose fodder is twelve versts away in a field. Imagine that the woods had been burned down and that new roofing or building material had to be bought in Porkhovo then you begin to have an idea of state economics.”
― Dmitry Maevsky

“Give your audience a change to experience the content first before you ask them to like, share and subscribe.”
― Loren Weisman

“Expect more than just the studies have shown marketing claims.
Dig deeper to see if there is any true validity and authority… or if it is just another hype claim.”
― Loren Weisman