Quotes About Optics

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

But then, of course, one can peek through the fingers, which is not only pleasurable but a lesson in practical optics.

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

An-Kirilnar is." The Helmsman stopped dead, so abruptly that it took her a moment to realize there were no more words coming. Flicker of shifting light across the optics, there and gone. But this time she saw it for certain. "Angfal?" "Quests are pretexts, Archeth. They are tales told, narrative blankets to wrap you against the cold you cannot bear.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

Place the tip of a stick in a clear brook and you'll see it "bend" underwater because the speed of light is literally slower beneath the surface than it is in air.

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

Seeing is believing

It is even more amusing to remember that an orange is really sort of blue in the model accepted in optical physics. That is, the fruit has absorbed blue — blue is conducted through its skin. We see orange precisely because there is no orange in the fruit — because orange is being reflected off the skin, to our eyes. The substance or isness of the fruit contains the blue we do not see; our brains contain the orange we do see.

I said, "Think they were cops?" "They match the descriptions you had. Both big, one bigger. Everything else is optics." Pike.

A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area.

The eyeball is contained in the cavity of the orbit. In this situation, it is securely protected from injury, whilst its position is such as to ensure the most extensive range of sight.

My blue eyes are my best feature.

Life is not light, but refracted colour.

The most fun part of my day is when I get to play with my lasers.

Colors come from a phenomenon called scattering. The wavelengths of light and the size of the particles determine the colors.

To ABDUCE  (ABDU'CE)   v.a.[Lat. abduco.]To draw to a different part; to withdraw one part from another.A word chiefly used in physic or science. And if we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate; for, in that position, the axis of the cones remain in the same plain, as is demonstrated in the optics delivered by Galen.Brown'sVulgar Errours,b. iii. c. 20.

Te ocupas de la botánica? ¿De la óptica? ¿Qué haces? ¿No es una ganancia más hermosa conmover a un corazón tierno? Ah. los corazones tiernos. Un charlatán es capaz de conmoverlos. Que sea mi única dicha conmoverte a ti, naturaleza.

all life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error...

And every minute Newton didn't spend working on optics, physics, astronomy (including inventing the reflecting telescope), some harmless alchemy, and other sidebars of his mathematical discipline, he spent furtively studying the Bible and church history.