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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
~ Humphry Davy
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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
~ Humphry Davy
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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
~ Humphry Davy
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The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
~ Humphry Davy
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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
~ Humphry Davy
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When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.
~ Humphry Davy
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
Between
Distant
Each
Exposure
Formation
Half
Incident
Interference
Mirror
Other
Place
Rays
Reflected
Takes
Those
Wavelength
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I got quite good results from protein plates.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
Good
Got
Plates
Protein
Quite
Results
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In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
Case
Colour
Continuous
Infinitely
Infinity
Interval
Layer
Manner
Must
Obtained
Occupied
Say
Sensitive
Separating
Slight
Systems
Them
Values
Whole
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Life is short and progress is slow.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
Life
Life Is Short
Progress
Short
Slow
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Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
Carry
Developed
Easy
Enough
Hotel
Hotel Room
Method
Most
Out
Pictures
Proves
Room
Taken
Travelling
Were
Which
While
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
Began
Continue
Exposure
Fifteen
Fifteen Minutes
First
Length
Long
May
Minute
Minutes
One Minute
Portrait
Progress
Still
Sunlight
Too
Work
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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
Back
Colour
Colours
Destroyed
Each
Eye
Image
Interference
Only
Other
Plate
Point
Sends
Simple
Thus
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
Been
Century
Colour
Direct
Facing
Has-Been
Last
Last Century
Photography
Problem
Since
Turn
Us
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
About
Developing
Final
Hour
Operations
Photographic
Quarter
Series
Takes
Washing
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This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
Due
Interference
Layer
Occurs
Phenomenon
Result
Sensitive
Which
Within
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When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
Afterwards
Appears
Because
Colour
Light
Reflection
Selective
Shot
Subjected
White
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
~ Galileo Galilei
Discover
Discovered
Easy
Once
Point
Them
Truths
Understand
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And yet it moves.
~ Galileo Galilei
Moves
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
~ Galileo Galilei
Any
Denying
Maintain
May
Paradox
Principles
Scientific
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