Across Quote by Eric Betzig

“The most striking impression was that of an overwhelming bright light. I had seen under similar conditions the explosion of a large amount—100 tons—of…

— Emilio Segrè

A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion…

— Paul Tibbets

The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the…

— Ernst Gombrich

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out…

— John Steinbeck

The lighting changes were definitely the biggest thing and the biggest reason that people don't shoot stop motion outdoors.

— Kirsten Lepore

“when the illumination did at last come, we felt repaid. It came unexpectedly, of course—things always do, that have been long looked and longed…

— Mark Twain

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the…

— David Hockney

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.

— Tom Stoppard

“Flashlight beams danced crazily”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A vast and fiery nuclear furnace launched photons through the reaches of space; they hurtled trillions of kilometers at breakneck speed, then filtered gently…

— Anonymous

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it…

— Jean Baudrillard

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been…

— Tennessee Williams