15 Quotes by Gabriel Lippmann

I got quite good results from protein plates.

The photography of composite colours that exterior objects present posed a harder problem. At first sight it might have been held impossible.

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.

Life is short and progress is slow

Life is short and progress is slow.

In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them – that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.