Light
Visible light (commonly referred to simply as light) is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, and is responsible for the sense of sight. Visible light has a wavelength in the range of about 380 nanometres to about 740 nm – between the invisible infrared, with longer wavelengths and the invisible ultraviolet, with shorter wavelengths.
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Famous quotes containing the word light:
“Let me give light, but let me not be light,
For a light wife doth make a heavy husband.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“In the domain of art there is no light without heat.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“It was a remarkable kind of light to steer for,daylight seen through a vista in the forest,but visible as far as an ordinary beacon at night.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)