The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Life is short and progress is slow

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.

Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

You don't take a class you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.

we're anything brighter than even the sun

Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.

The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.