Ren Ng Quotes

You have to understand the nature of light.

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.

I am interested in the physicality of light itself.

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

The bubbles are thinner than wavelengths of light.

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.

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.

The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is quite the opposite: a communal activity in significant part where interaction and interchange generate ideas and critiques of them.

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

I think the thing that makes 'NCIS' so special is the team and the group. And there's our fearless leader, Mark Harmon. We all really enjoy working together, so it would be a shame if we weren't all there having fun together.

If you bring people together, you’ve got something. If you can’t bring them together, you don’t got nothing.

A radio telescope pointing at the sky receives radiation not only from space, but also from other sources including the ground, the earth's atmosphere, and the components of the radio telescope itself.

I'm excited about working with Mark Hughes and building a good relationship with him.

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.

Making a mark becomes more challenging when you are a part of a multi-starrer. But I like that.

Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.

I'll miss working with Mark, and all of the other Sharks. Each of them has been incredibly generous and warm to me, and I am proud of all the episodes we made together.

Mark Crew, the only producer we've ever worked with, has been joining us on tour as often as possible.

Everything that I do, I put my teammates first. To me, that's the mark of a true leader. That's what I want to be. I want to be a leader and have guys continue to follow.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.