Ultraviolet Quotes

• Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

  Walter Benjamin

  Memories, Book, Men

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.483, Harvard University Press

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• The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light only the number is different.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Light, Blue, Numbers

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.13, Princeton University Press

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• Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

  Derek Jarman

  Blue, Rose, Wavelength

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• I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of it between the infrared and the ultraviolet - the narrow narrow corridor of light that we are able to perceive.

  Russell Brand

  Light, People, Able

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.

  Victoria Finlay

  Appreciate, Ordinary, Exotic

  Victoria Finlay (2002). “Color: A Natural History of the Palette”

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• My own ultraviolet darling. " Lolita

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Darling, My Own

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• Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brian: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

  Annie Dillard

  Mean, Cutting, Animal

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• When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.

  Peter Diamandis

  Gps, Car, World

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with Howie’s waste. It bothered him that he was leaving evidence behind without some sort of oxygenated bleach, those blood splatters would still show up under Luminol. Of course, the odds of anyone deciding to spray down the morgue freezer and switch on an ultraviolet light were pretty minimal, so it’s not like it was evidence that anyone would ever find or use. Still: Billy Dent’s First Commandment was “Thou shalt not leave evidence.

  Barry Lyga

  Light, Odds, Blood

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• The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones and acid rain on ground level - while we're also changing the thermal climate of the earth through the greenhouse effect and - get this - simultaneously causing destruction of our primary filter of ultraviolet light. It's incredible. Talk about the national-debt crisis - we're piling up debts in the atmosphere, and the piper will want to be paid.

  Michael Oppenheimer

  Rain, Ozone, Light

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• Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

  Fred Reed

  Book, Writing, Lakes

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