Surface Brightness Profiles

Famous quotes containing the words surface and/or brightness:

    “A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “on thy brow
    Shall sit a nobler grace than now.
    Deep in the brightness of the skies
    The thronging years in glory rise.
    And, as they fleet,
    Drop strength and riches at thy feet.”
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)