Airy Diffraction Pattern

Famous quotes containing the words airy and/or pattern:

“Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men.”
—William Allingham (1824–1889)

“Every child has an inner timetable for growth—a pattern unique to him. . . . Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. It is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap.”
—Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)