Gabriel Lippmann Quotes

• Life is short and progress is slow

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Funny, Life, Progress

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• I got quite good results from protein plates.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Results, Protein, Plates

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• In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Layers, Infinity, Sensitive

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• The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Finals, Hours, Operations

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• The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Photography, Lasts, Problem

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• When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Reflection, White, Light

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• [On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Believe, Thinking, Curves

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• Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Taken, Rooms, Hospitality

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