"When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy."
— Thomas Young (1773-1829)
"The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting."
— Thomas Young (1773-1829)
"Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt."
— Thomas Young (1773-1829)
"Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories."
— Thomas Young (1773-1829)
“Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.”
— Thomas Young (1773-1829)
“It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.”
— Thomas Young (1773-1829)