Thomas Young Quotes

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• Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle,…
• Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise…
• The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it…
• But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye…
• If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the…
• When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.
• The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is…
• You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder…
• Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.
• Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions…

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