Light Quotes

10393 quotes by 5176 authors

[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000… — Francis William Aston
Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin — Unknown Author
Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search… — Julian Schnabel
Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children of light. — Jacob Moleschott
Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light. — David Ferrier
Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out. — Wayne LaPierre
'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned. — Jeph Jacques
The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say;… — Charles Reznikoff
Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But… — Ralph Levy
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in… — H. P. Blavatsky
Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the… — Joseph Black
I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved,… — William Herschel
And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the… — Robert Boyle
Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be… — William Buckland
When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light. — Charles Hard Townes
For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they… — Hans Cloos
To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is… — William Crookes
Those who understand the cross increasingly see their sin as God does, and therefore begin to feelabout sin as does God. We begin to mourn… — William F. Farley
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound… — Thomas George Bonney
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Clifford Shull

Who Wrote These Light Quotes

5,176 authors contributed a total of 10,393 Light Quotes, led by these top contributors: