Visible Light Quotes

• Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

  James Turrell

  Light, Vision, Revelations

  James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

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• 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

  Light, World, Sun

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.566

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• Light, the visible reminder of Invisible Light.

  John Green

  Light, Invisible, Reminders

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.36, A&C Black

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• We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us. Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Reality, Thinking

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• Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

  John Milton

  Light, Flames, Darkness

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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• My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Light, Color, Goal

  "Olafur Eliasson on Turning Light into Color". Interview with Elisa Wouk Almino, hyperallergic.com. January 14, 2015.

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• Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.

  Paracelsus

  Nature, Light, Invisible

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• Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, Invisible, Reminders

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Spiritual, Prayer, Light

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• 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

  Kissing, Night, Light

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• 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

  Stars, Science, Animal

  Heinz R. Pagels (1985). “Perfect symmetry: the search for the beginning of time”, Simon & Schuster

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• I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.

  John Wyndham

  Book, Men, Thinking

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• I am from the Mediterranean area, I have to feel everything. I am a physical person, but I guess that things that you cannot touch and cannot see are also touchable and visible—light, poetry, music.

  Jaume Plensa

  Light, Feels, Persons

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