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- 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… — Werner Heisenberg
- In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at… — Christopher Wren
- In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around… — Richard Whately
- Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on… — Edward Abbey
- Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day,… — George Weigel
- At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual… — 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… — Voltaire
- So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others… — 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… — Robert Grosseteste