Optical Devices - Other Optical Devices

Famous quotes containing the words optical devices, optical and/or devices:

“The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)