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 b…

- Thomas Young

You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousa…

- Thomas Young

It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture…

- Thomas Young

If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the sp…

- Thomas Young

Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.

- Thomas Young

Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.

- Thomas Young

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

- Thomas Young

Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combin…

- Thomas Young

But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye by different r…

- Thomas Young