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Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

William Blackstone
Law, Optics, Action
Sir William Blackstone, Edward Christian, John Frederick Archbold, Joseph Chitty (1827). “Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.25

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

Joyce Carol Oates
Sight, Optics, Illusion

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

John Trumbull
Needs, Optics
John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.7

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

Paul Cezanne
Artist, Optics, Study

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Richard Whately
Law, Optics, Judgment

The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them.

John William Fletcher
People, Evil, Optics

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.

Jefferson Han
Light, Optics, Fiber

The idea that we criminalize fellow human beings based on optics, based on the need to progress in politics and gain power, and for economic reasons and financial reasons, for financial gains, and we throw out humanization for criminalization.

Ava DuVernay
Ideas, Progress, Optics
Source: deadline.com

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