Brilliant Quote by C. V. Raman

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger,…

— Evangelista Torricelli

A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea.…

— C. V. Raman

Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the…

— Mark Akenside

The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in…

— Peter Higgs

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure…

— George Carlin

“Ivan Pulyui, a college professor at the University of Vienna from the Ukraine, is sometimes credited with having sold the first x-ray tubes, before…

— James Mahaffey

“surprisingly dramatic glow some minerals gave off when illuminated with ultraviolet light, or “black light.” In daylight, for instance, the mineral fluorite is a…

— William M. Bass

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“The sun was beginning to set and the water was sparkling in the low light as the onshore breeze that had built up through…

— Emma Bamford

“I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench…

— Anonymous

“Shades of its former grandeur were still evident in the curving staircase, the chipped marble entryway floor, and the wide single-paned skylight overhead”

— Cassandra Clare

In the clear moon light

— Faithless