Quotes About Optics

Perceptions, comparisons, compliance and connotations of the messaging and optics of a brand can matter a great deal. Take the time to choose a sound foundation for the name, the content and the tone wisely for a secure and stable performance.

When our eyes see the whole range of visible light together, they read it as "white." When some of the wavelengths are missing, they see it as "colored.

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?

You may think yellow is a color, but it isn't. It's a psychological state. It is what human beings with working visual apparatus experience when their eyes are struck by light with a wavelength of 580 nanometers.

And how after we grow old can we read the Bible without a little helpful science? Just think, father, you cannot read your Bible without spectacles,... And spectacles cannot be made without some knowledge of the science of optics.

It's hard finding your glasses when you don't have your glasses on.

People who can't see without glasses should wear them.

Back in 1698 Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist who did pioneering work in optics, wrote 'Why [should] not every one of these stars and suns have as great a retinue as our sun, of planets, with their moons to wait upon them?

Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

The place of the study of communication in the history of science is neither trivial, fortuitous, nor new. Even before Newton such problems were current in physics, especially in the work of Fermat, Huygens, and Leibnitz, each of whom shared an interest in physics whose focus was not mechanics but optics, the communication of visual images.

Between them, Kirchhoff and Bunsen developed the spectroscope, which uses a prism to refract light. As Newton had