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

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.

Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don't you die.

When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had ever really thought like that. Self-recrimination inevitably followed.

What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.

Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.