Isaac Newton Quotes

You have to understand the nature of light.

I am interested in the physicality of light itself.

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

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

The speed of light sucks.

I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

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

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

There are colors we can't see, but they're connected to the ones we can, There's a connection between everything.

To some degree, to control light, I have to have a way to form it, so I use form almost like the stretcher bar of a canvas.

When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.

There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light.

As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

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

The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light only the number is different.

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.

Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

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.

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.