Fresnel Quotes & Sayings

Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it. — Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little: it is a principle that the development of physics constantly supports by new evidence. — Jean Fresnel

It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration. — Albert A. Michelson

If you cannot saw with a file or file with a saw, then you will be no good as an experimentalist. — Augustin-Jean Fresnel