“Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.” ThinkingMadeScienceDiscoveryAccidentsLikesRays Author:William Cecil Dampier
“Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to fulfill its mission; it cannot function in a void. Light can go straight, penetrate and turn back, be reflected and deflected, gathered and spread, bent as by a soap bubble, made to sparkle and be blocked. Where it is no more is blackness, and where it begins is the core of its brightness. The journey of rays from that central core to the outposts of blackness is the adventure and drama of light.” MadeLightTurnsLosesJourneyAdventureDramaFunctionSpreadMissionsCoreWanderRaysVoidBubblesBentPenetrateSoapBrightnessBlacknessSparkleBlockedSoap Bubbles Book:Fun in a Chinese Laundry Source: Fun in a Chinese Laundry
“Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.” MadeTwoEndsSunShadowSticksHeightRaysPyramidsTriangles Author:Thales
“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.” LoveMadeYoungJoyBeliefDarkVisionBlueMeetingsFingersLipsPhrasesSubtleRaysYearningCheeksSpontaneousYoung LoveUnfinishedMomentaryLove MakingCompletenessIndefinableOrbs Book:Middlemarch: Easyread Edition Source: Middlemarch: Easyread Edition