Refractive Index 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.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.

The lens is a tyranny.

The bubbles are thinner than wavelengths of light.

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

I just think white light generation is just one of these remarkable things to see, and actually, you know, one colour of light goes in to just water or any clear anything and out comes all the colours of the rainbow when the pulses are short and intense enough.

Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.

This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.

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

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

The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.