"The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting."
"Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories."
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Source: Thomas Young (1807). “A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts: In Two Volumes”, p.7
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