Donna Strickland Quotes

It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already known by somebody 25 years before lasers were discovered. The ideas were all there; just, nobody put it together.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.

I still try to make different types of lasers that other people don't have.

When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'

You have to understand the nature of 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.

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

I am interested in the physicality of light itself.

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.

Optics can drive an economy.

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.

Yes. Because every family needs a laser for thier family jet.

Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

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

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing with hysterical pleas on behalf of Reagan's eerie laser-beam technology, the MacBundys of the world seem eminently, refreshingly sane.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

They're hitting harder now more than ever. The only person who would argue that is someone who has never had a physics class. They're faster and stronger, so the reality is the collisions have to be bigger.

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

The idea that we criminalize fellow human beings based on optics, based on the need to progress in politics and gain power, and for economic reasons and financial reasons, for financial gains, and we throw out humanization for criminalization.