Photios I Quotes on Knowledge
Photios I, called the Great, was a Byzantine philosopher, theologian, and twice Patriarch of Constantinople, the most learned man of ninth-century Byzantium and one of the principal figures in the long Eastern Christian effort to harmonize the inheritance of classical philosophy with Christian theology. This page collects quotes attributed to Photios I on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Photios I:
“The reading of the ancients is the duty of the educated Christian.”
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“The library is the treasury of the Christian commonwealth.”
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“Tradition is preserved less by repeating it than by understanding why it was first said.”
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“Jeremy Bernstein , Quantum Profiles (1991), "John Stewart Bell: Quantum Engineer”
The theory of the light quantum, which Einstein initiated in 1905 and which is with us still, is certainly the most revolutionary development in the history of physics and arguably in the history of science. The creators of the theory, men such as Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and Paul Dirac, were often struck by the apparent "absurdity"—the utterly no -
“Light is something like raindrops —each little lump of light is called a photon—and if the light is all one color , all the "raindrops" are the same.”
Richard Feynman , QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 14. -
“My favorite deep, elegant and beautiful explanation is Albert Einstein 's 1905 proposal that light consists of energy quanta, today called photons. Actually, it is little known, even among physicists, but extremely interesting how Einstein came to this position. It is often said that Einstein invented the concept to explain the photoelectric effect. Certainly, that is part of Einstein's 1905 publication, but only towards its end. The idea itself is much deeper, more elegant and, yes, more beautiful.”
Anton Zeilinger , Einstein's Photons (2012) -
“Anton Zeilinger , Einstein's Photons (2012)”
My favorite deep, elegant and beautiful explanation is Albert Einstein 's 1905 proposal that light consists of energy quanta, today called photons. Actually, it is little known, even among physicists, but extremely interesting how Einstein came to this position. It is often said that Einstein invented the concept to explain the photoelectric effect. Certainly, that is part of Einstein's 1905 publi -
“At the first of the 1960's Rochester Coherence Conferences, I suggested that a license be required for use of the word photon , and offered to give such license to properly qualified people.”
W. E. Lamb , Anti-photon, Appl. Phys. B 60 , 77-84 (1995). -
“W. E. Lamb , Anti-photon, Appl. Phys. B 60 , 77-84 (1995).”
At the first of the 1960's Rochester Coherence Conferences, I suggested that a license be required for use of the word photon , and offered to give such license to properly qualified people. -
“F. J. Duarte (2003). Tunable Laser Optics . Elsevier Academic. p. 26. ISBN 0-12-222696-8 .”
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