Renzo Piano Quotes

The speed of light sucks.

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

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

Photons have neither morals or visas.

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.

Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium - or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

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

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

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.

I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process of radiation, the name photon.

Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same.

'Eveything is made of light,' he said, 'and the space between isn't empty.'

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

There is no glimpse of the light without walking the path. You can't get it from anyone else, nor can you give it to anyone. Just take whatever steps seem easiest for you, and as you take a few steps it will be easier for you to take a few more.

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

I notice her blouse has pulled out of her skirt in the back again and force myself to stay calm. "Tuck your tail in, little duck," I say, smoothing the blouse back in place. Prim giggles and give me a small "Quack." "Quack yourself," I say with a light laugh. The kind only Prim can draw out of me.

Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high.

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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.

Non-churchgoer s tend to see Christians as takers rather than givers. When Christians sacrifice and give wildly to the poor, that is truly a light that glimmers. The Bible teaches that the church is to be that light, that sign of hope, in an increasingly dark and hopeless world.

Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.