“No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.”
[Banesh Hoffmann, The strange story of the quantum: an account for the general reader of the growth of the ideas underlying our present atomic knowledge, Courier Dover Publications, 1959, 0486205185, 7]
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American mathematician and physicist 1906–1986Related quotes
“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88
The Mask and Mirror (1994), The Mystic's Dream
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“It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene,”
Ulysses (1922)
Context: It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness... (271)
As quoted in The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists (1962) by Katharine Kuh, p. 128
1960s
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Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)