The colours which glitter on a soap-bubble are the immediate consequence of a principle the most important from the variety of phenomena it explains, and the most beautiful, from its simplicity and compendious neatness, in the whole science of optics.


A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, Part I, Chapter I (p. 14), Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. 1845

John Herschel Quotes

The colours which glitter on a soap-bubble are the immediate consequence of a principle the most important from the variety of phenomena it explains, ...

The colours which glitter on a soap-bubble are the immediate consequence of a principle the most important from the variety of phenomena it explains, ...

The colours which glitter on a soap-bubble are the immediate consequence of a principle the most important from the variety of phenomena it explains, ...

The colours which glitter on a soap-bubble are the immediate consequence of a principle the most important from the variety of phenomena it explains, ...