Thomas Young (scientist)

"Physic is one of those departments, in which there is frequent necessity for the exercise of an incommunicable faculty of judgment, and a sagacity, which may be called transcendental, as extending bey…"

"With respect to the mathematical part of optics, the curvature of the images, formed by lenses and mirrors, has been correctly investigated, and the inaccuracy of some former estimations has been demo…"

"There is no study more difficult than that of physic: it exceeds, as a science, the comprehension of the human mind: and those who blunder onwards, without attempting to understand what they see, are …"

"Besides these improvements,... there are others,... which may... be interesting to those... engaged in those departments... Among these may be ranked, in the division of mechanics, properly so called,…"

"I have resolved to confine my studies and my pen to medical subjects only. For the talents which God has not given me, I am not responsible, but those which I possess, I have hitherto cultivated and e…"

"In the astronomical and physical division of the work, will be found a general rule for determining the correction on account of aberration; a comparison of observations on the; a table of the order o…"

"The well known elevation of the pitch of wind instruments, in the course of playing, sometimes amounting to half a note, is not, as is commonly supposed, owing to any expansion of the instrument, for …"

"Life of Thomas Young by George Peacock"