Light Quotes

• If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

  

  Max von Laue
  • Light

• When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Light
  • Dark

• What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.

  

  Lusia Strus
  • Movie
  • Light
  • Theatre

• I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Light
  • Poverty

• How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it. Yet evidently the true object of education, now as ever, is to develop the capabilities of the head and of the heart.

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • True

• It's amnesty that America can't afford. We have to stop people from coming in illegally. This will be a green light for anyone who wants to come to America illegally and then be granted citizenship one day... The majority that are here illegally are low-skilled or may not even have a high school diploma. The Republican Party is not going to compete over who can give more social programs out. They will become Democrats because of the social programs they'll depend on.

  

  Lou Barletta
  • People
  • School
  • May

• Heavy is the root of light.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Light
  • Root

• We detect light and particles that have traveled billions of light years on their way across the universe to us. During the billions of years of travel, very small effects due to quantum gravity can be amplified to the point that we can detect them.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Small
  • Universe
  • Travel

• At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Small
  • Eight
  • Nine

• Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.

  

  Karim Kharbouch
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Father

• Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture - a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Music
  • Truth
  • Single

• We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.

  

  William Watson
  • Hate
  • Choices
  • Careless

• The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.

  

  A. Meredith Walters
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Darkness

• They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Light
  • Sacrifice

• The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

  

  Aristotle
  • Night
  • Day
  • Shadow

• The world is now rapidly advancing in light, in knowledge, in power to use the infinite gifts that the Creator has hidden in nature; but hidden only to stimulate and reward our seeking. Every man can help in this grand progress,-if not by research and positive thought-power, at least by grateful acceptance and realization of what is gained. Look forward!

  

  Elisha Gray
  • World
  • Power
  • Help

• Job seekers light up when they find The Muse - we're a breath of fresh air in a stale, musty world. Our user experience focuses first and foremost on the individual, on providing them information - from content to company profiles - to make the most pressing professional decisions in their lives.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Up
  • World
  • Job

• I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.

  

  James Turrell
  • Light

• My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Light
  • Properties
  • Hypotheses

• By staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder to read.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Games
  • Pupils
  • Bulbs

• Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposedInfinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosedFrom breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible caveThat no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave;To all which Jove's will gave effect; from whom first strife begunBetwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son.

  

  George Chapman
  • Men
  • Son
  • King

• The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Cryptochrome harnesses the energy of incoming blue light, but other molecules are probably needed to absorb light of other colors.

  

  Jeffrey C. Hall
  • Energy
  • Light
  • Blue

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