Gabriel Lippmann Quotes

I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.

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.

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.

The bubbles are thinner than wavelengths of light.

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing.

I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.

She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

I turned back to the mirror, seeing that there were no lines on it. It was empty. "What happened to my mirror?" I said, bewildered. Then realizing that I was looking at the back of the dumb thing, I swore and turned it over.

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.

...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

I just can't believe it's always somebody else's fault. Sometimes you just have to take a look in the mirror and reflect on what went wrong.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?

It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."