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

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

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

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

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

- Thomas Young

Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to enter a narrow channel…

- Thomas Young

Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.

- Thomas Young

The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to…

- 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