Leon Foucault quotes
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“Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain to communicate by constructing it on a small [scale], no matter how carefully. Already the regularity of its motion promises the most conclusive results. One collects numbers that, compared with the predictions of theory, permit one to appreciate how far the true pendulum approximates or differs from the abstract system called 'the simple pendulum'.”
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“The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose to make known to the [Paris] Academy [of Sciences] are principally addressed to the direction of the plane of its oscillation, which, moving gradually from east to west, provides evidence to the senses of the diurnal movement of the terrestrial globe.”
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“The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.”
-- Leon FoucaultSource : "Pendulum: Léon Foucault and the Triumph of Science". Book by Amir D. Aczel, 2000.
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”
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Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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“Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.”
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