The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.
Michael Polanyi

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.
Satyajit Ray

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
William Gibson

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen Key

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
Douglas Horton

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Boris Pasternak

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
Harold Pinter

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.
Janice Dickinson

Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom

It is still color, it is not yet light.
Pierre Bonnard

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Sam Francis

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
Amy Tan

The dark is light enough.
Christopher Fry

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
Mark Hoppus

I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?
Alex Rodriguez