Light Propagation Quotes

If you know the shape of the lens and the image you get, you can work out the path that light followed between the object and your eye.

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.

Einstein had looked at the numbers and dimensions that went into his equations for gravitational waves and said, essentially, 'This is so tiny that it will never have any influence on anything, and nobody can measure it.' And when you think about the times and the technology in 1916, he was probably right.

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.

Light refused increases darkness.

McMaster had an engineering physics program and... one of the parts of it was lasers and electro-optics and I just said, 'Now doesn't that sound cool. I just got to do that.'

You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time.

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected.

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

The obvious thing to me was, let's take freely floating masses in space and measure the time it takes light to travel between them. The presence of a gravitational wave would change that time. Using the time difference, one could measure the amplitude of the wave.

Light to me is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe. My thinking has been deeply affected by the belief everything is some form of radiant energy.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.