"Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the……" — Thomas Young
"Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories."
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10 Quotes by Thomas Young
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Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in…
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The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice…
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But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same…
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If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of…
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When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a…
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The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without…
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You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally,…
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Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.
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Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is…
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