Mozi (-470–-391 BC) Chinese political philosopher and religious reformer of the Warring States period
Book 10: Exposition of Canon II; this is the earliest known description of the inverted image produced by a camera obscura,; as translated in by Ian Jonston in The Mozi (2010), p. 489
“Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
“Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
“If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth.”
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
Context: If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth. So too in religion we are repelled by that confident theological doctrine... but we need not turn aside from the measure of light that comes into our experience showing us a Way through the unseen world.<!--IX, p.91
Hans Frank (1900–1946) German war criminal
To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 37
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 4 : Moral Ideals
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
