Thomas Young famous quotes

03-28-2025

The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.
-- Thomas Young

#Hands #Shining #Ease
Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.
-- Thomas Young

#Doubt #Vision
Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.
-- Thomas Young

#Science #Two #Differences
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.
-- Thomas Young

#Science #Light
You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americansâ€”my fellow veteransâ€”whose future you stole,
-- Thomas Young

#War #Eye #Justice
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.
-- Thomas Young

#Science #World #Firsts
When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.
-- Thomas Young

#Boys #Men
If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet.
-- Thomas Young

#Fall #Eye #Blue
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye by different routes, either exactly or very nearly in the same direction, the appearance or disappearance of various colours is determined by the greater or less difference in the lengths of the paths.
-- Thomas Young

#Eye #Light #Law
The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.
-- Thomas Young

#Art #Science #Practice
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories.
-- Thomas Young

#Twilight #Science #Noon
It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.
-- Thomas Young

#Animal #Sea #Fishing

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