Famous quotes containing the words ray and/or microscopes:
“Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies; and when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Faith is a fine invention
When Gentleman can see
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
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