Wisdom To Start The Day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[rinselberg]

Who wrote the first book of optic's and when ????????

Yo' Chris, think you meant to put this question in that other thread "Do you know your optical past?", but hey--I'm all over this one!

The Book of Optics (Arabic: Kitab al-Manazir, Latin: De Aspectibus) was a seven volume treatise on optics, physics, anatomy, mathematics and psychology written by the Iraqi Arab Muslim scientist Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhacen or Alhazen in Europe) from 1011 to 1021, when he was under house arrest in Cairo, Egypt. The book had an important influence on the development of optics, and science in general, as it drastically transformed the understanding of light and vision, and introduced the experimental scientific method. As a result, Ibn al-Haytham has been described as the "father of optics", the "pioneer of the modern scientific method", and the "first scientist". The Book of Optics has been ranked alongside Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica as one of the most influential books ever written in the history of physics.

http://www.babylon.com/definition/Bo...Optics/English

[Chris Ryser]

"Intel has announced its next chip:........................

the Repentium."

Anon.






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[Chris Ryser]

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger,..................................

has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.

William Proxmire, In NY "Herald Tribune", February 16, 1964





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[Chris Ryser]

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long................................

Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward...................

Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed............................

The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White





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[Chris Ryser]

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing,.................................

but even that is a decision."

Gary Collins






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[Chris Ryser]

"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. ....................................................

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. ...............................................

Without it there are only alibis."

Henry Ford






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[Chris Ryser]

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions;..................................................

both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincare





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[Chris Ryser]

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

William Blake






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[Chris Ryser]

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. ........................

It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he?.......................

If he can think, he will probably think differently.

If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

Oscar Wilde, The soul of man under Socialism (essay), 1891






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[Chris Ryser]

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not,.............................

you are right."

Henry Ford








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[Chris Ryser]

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece,...........................................

like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Arnold Schwarzenegger







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[Chris Ryser]

Do not fear to be excentric in opinion,..............................

for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell







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[Chris Ryser]

Stubbornness does have its helpful features..............................................

You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.

Glen Beaman









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[Chris Ryser]

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well........................................

What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

George E. Woodberry







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[Chris Ryser]

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost,or else be driven from the market...........................................

It is a profit-and-loss system. ...............................................

Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways.....................................

That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.

Milton Friedman







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[Chris Ryser]

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought ..................................

without accepting it."

Aristotle








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[Chris Ryser]

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train.................................

Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"

J. Paul Getty





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[Chris Ryser]

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading....................................

Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.................................

Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do............................

It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

Christopher Morley






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[Chris Ryser]

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar,...........................................

instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Henry Ford






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[Chris Ryser]

This depression was deep,.....................................................

and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.

Will Rogers, December 31, 1933




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[Chris Ryser]

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes,..............................................

which can be made, in a very narrow field.

Neils Bohr






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[Chris Ryser]

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business,..................................

the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Herbert Hoover, Address at Des Moines, Iowa, October 4, 1932






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[Chris Ryser]

All our knowledge begins with the senses,.......................................

proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason.

There is nothing higher than reason.

­Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781







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[Chris Ryser]

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play,......................................

his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion........................................

He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.................................

To him he's always doing both.

James A. Michener, attributed






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[Chris Ryser]

A fly and a flea in a flue

Were imprisoned, so what could they do?

Said the Flea, "Let us fly!"

Said the Fly, "Let us flee!"

So they fled through a flaw in the flue.

Anon.





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