Optical Trap

Famous quotes containing the words optical and/or trap:

    It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.
    —For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever
    servant, insufferable master.
    There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that
    caught—they say—God, when he walked on earth.
    Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)