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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. -- Paul Cezanne
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. -- Claude Debussy
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. -- Walter Benjamin
But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. -- John Trumbull
In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide. -- Jefferson Han
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry. -- Christopher Wren
Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box. -- John Dykstra
Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them. -- John William Fletcher
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us. -- Richard Whately
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848) -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n. -- Alexander Pope
Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections. -- Ted Chiang
It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic . -- Charles Sanders Peirce
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes. -- Alexander Pope
it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us. -- Hannah More
There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics. -- William Stanley Jevons
I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman. -- Sydney Pollack
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art. -- Voltaire
Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive. -- David Hockney
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed prematurely from a knowledge of only certain parts of the world, has undergone a decisive transformation. This conception, however, is always decisive for the future course of research. -- Werner Heisenberg
But concerning vision alone is a separate science formed among philosophers, namely, optics, and not concerning any other sense ... It is possible that some other science may be more useful, but no other science has so much sweetness and beauty of utility. Therefore it is the flower of the whole of philosophy and through it, and not without it, can the other sciences be known. -- Roger Bacon
If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.' -- Felix Feneon
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. -- Richard Whately
There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter. -- Lennart Nilsson
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light." -- Claude Debussy
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. -- Edward Abbey
I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field. -- Natalie Portman
Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world. -- Michael Barnett

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