Gabriel Lippmann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to PoincarÃ©:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.
-- Gabriel Lippmann

#Believe #Thinking #Curves
Life is short and progress is slow
-- Gabriel Lippmann

#Funny #Life #Progress
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
I got quite good results from protein plates.
-- Gabriel Lippmann

#Results #Protein #Plates
The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
-- Gabriel Lippmann

#Finals #Hours #Operations
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
-- Gabriel Lippmann

#Photography #Lasts #Problem
When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
-- Gabriel Lippmann

#Reflection #White #Light
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

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.
The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.
We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

Gabriel Lippmann famous quotes

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