Long Quote by Max von Laue

For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to…

— Max von Laue

“The wavelength of a lightwave limits how small a thing you can see, for you cannot resolve an object smaller than the wavelength of…

— Lee Smolin

“What’s the wavelength of the 21-centimeter line?”)”

— Max Tegmark

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway…

— Charles Francis Richter

The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

— Erwin Schrodinger

The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the…

— Werner Heisenberg

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

— Johannes Stark

In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values…

— Gabriel Lippmann

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select…

— Max von Laue

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths…

— Charles Francis Richter

“Once the thermal radiation reaches the surface temperature of the Sun-some 6000 degrees Celsius-we perceive it as white light. At still higher temperatures, 8500…

— Henning Genz