Leon Foucault Quotes
- Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain…
- The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose…
- The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power…
- Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with…