Optics Quotes

25 quotes by 23 authors

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. — Paul Cezanne
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed… — Werner Heisenberg
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have… — Christopher Wren
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us. — Richard Whately
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. — Edward Abbey
Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a… — George Weigel
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not… — Tom G. Palmer
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton… — Voltaire
So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many… — Nicolaus Copernicus
But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. — John Trumbull
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close,… — Robert Grosseteste
Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a… — John Dykstra
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through… — Alexander Pope
Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the… — David Hockney
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other… — Richard John Neuhaus
Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion. — Joyce Carol Oates
When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion… — William Stanley Jevons

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