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My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light. -- Olafur Eliasson
Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature can be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature will become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her in her inner light. -- Paracelsus
She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness. -- John Green
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things. -- Saint Augustine
It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young, but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. Stars are born inside thick clouds of dust and gas in the spiral arms of the galaxy, so thick that visible light cannot penetrate them. -- Heinz Pagels
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. -- Max von Laue
Light, the visible reminder of Invisible Light. -- John Green
Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest. -- William Gurnall
The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light. -- Douglas Adams
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect. -- Francis Parkman
Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen. -- Dana Goodyear
Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light. -- T. S. Eliot
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. -- John Milton
Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things. -- Leigh Hunt
There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness. -- Paulo Coelho
Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes. -- Paulo Coelho
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself. -- Henry David Thoreau
The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them. -- Jack Kornfield
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul -- Pythagoras
Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know. -- Zia Haider Rahman
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe -- John Milton

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