Marcel Proust

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

French Author

Robert Musil

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

Austrian Writer

Jefferson Han

In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide.

American Scientist

Reed Hastings

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

American Businessman

Frits Zernike

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

Dutch Physicist

Bridget Riley

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

British Artist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

American Philosopher

Paul Cezanne

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

French Artist

Temple Grandin

American Educator

Shane Douglas

American Wrestler

Used in medical or health-related discussions, often referring to eye care.

Eye Health

'Optic' deals with physical sight, not imaginative vision.

Not Visionary

Refers to parts that can be seen, often used figuratively for parts of objects.

Visible Parts

Refers to key components in devices used for magnification or precision.

Technical Instruments

The quality of an optic could affect the clarity or effectiveness of devices.

Focus Quality

Associated with the transmission or manipulation of light.

Light Transmission

Commonly used in the context of modern technology or telecommunications.

Modern Usage

Speaks to conceptual viewpoints and interpretations, rather than the literal sense.

Metaphorical View

Used to talk about theoretical or philosophical perspectives.

Philosophical Context

 But rather than celebrating a physics revolution, the researchers published a cautious paper arguing for continued research in an effort to explain the observed anomaly. In time, the error was tracked to a single incorrectly connected fiber optic cable. This example reminds us that real science is more than static textbooks.

Is there a reproducibilit...

 filter on it there are many ways that you can look at the Sun during an eclipse so long as they have this ISO certified filter on it that really protects not just your eyes that's the most important point but also the optics of your technology the incredible thing is these filters are so dark that when

Watch the Total Solar...

 Traveling through the optic nerve to the SCN, it communicates what's happening in the outside world. The hypothalamus then halts the production of melatonin, a hormone that triggers sleep. At the same time, it increases the production of vasopressin and noradrenaline throughout the brain,

How does your body know...

 with different areas processing information from each of our senses. But even in people with completely unimpaired senses, the brain constructs the world we perceive from incomplete information. For example, our eyes have blind spots where the optic nerve blocks part of the retina.

How much of what you see...

 that it encounters in real life. So when does the brain encounter stimuli like this? Well, it seems a bit odd, but in fact, you've been encountering this stimulus all day long. Whenever you move, whenever you move forward, in particular. When you move forward, you get optic flow,

Why do we see illusions?...

 one of the world's greatest examples of learning to see something invisible by observing its effect on things that are visible. So fast forward a few hundred years, and here we stand. We've evolved from a single lens to optics that reveal the birth of a star in another galaxy,

The story behind your...

 or with this paper or computer screen right up in your face. What optical illusions show us is the way your photo receptors and brain assemble visual information into the three-dimensional world you see around you, where edges should get extra attention

How optical illusions...

 you in that potty mouth but there is a phenomenal poet and a dear mentor of mine and fellow potty-mouth by the name of Kristen O'Keefe optics and she has this beautiful poem about women writers that I think about all the time and the

Poetry makes people...

 if I flip this book fast enough the images begin to animate and that's because the pages are moving so fast we hardly notice them turning it's essentially an optical illusion although her vision appears to be seamless our

How Do Dragonflies See...

 are too subtle to detect by our naked eye. So to help us reveal people's facial emotions, we have developed a new imaging technology we call "transdermal optical imaging."