- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Light Quotes
Sometimes clarity just needs a light switch.
A few of these use light as a metaphor for clearing out what no longer serves you, while others are about the literal, practical light a film crew depends on. For hopeful reading in the same spirit, see our Hope quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.
- Speed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
- Nov 07, 2020
My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.
- Employer
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- Nov 07, 2020
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the week following Sandy, we weren't flooded, but we were without everything else - I ended up living by candlelight - no phones, no computers, no light, no power. If we took a walk at night to go and find something to eat, it was completely black, with no lights coming out of the windows, no street lights: a very apocalyptic feeling.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Hurricane Sandy, my family and I stayed in our apartment in lower Manhattan before things normalized. We're lucky enough to live on a bit of high ground, so we weren't flooded... but it was intense. Since there was no light, water, or electricity, I spent a lot of time playing acoustic guitar in the evenings.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hyeon means sunshine. Seo means good fortune. I chose it so that I would live my life in light and warmth and not return to the shadow.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
- Nov 07, 2020