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Astrónomo y matemático escocés (1781–1868)
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Sir David Brewster fue un científico, inventor, autor y administrador académico británico. En la ciencia se le recuerda principalmente por su trabajo experimental en óptica física, mayormente relacionado con el estudio de la polarización de la luz e incluyendo el descubrimiento del ángulo de Brewster. Estudió la birrefringencia de los cristales bajo compresión y descubrió la fotoelasticidad, creando así el campo de la mineralogía óptica. Por este trabajo, William Whewell lo apodó el "padre de la óptica experimental moderna" y "el Johannes Kepler de la óptica."
“Truth has no greater enemy than its unwise defenders, and no warmer friends than those who, receiving it in a meek and tolerant spirit, respect the conscientious convictions of others, and seek, in study and in prayer, for the best solution of mysterious and incomprehensible revelations.”
“It is not easy to devise a cure for such a state of things (the declining taste for science). The most obvious remedy is to provide the educated classes with a series of works on popular and practical science, freed from mathematical symbols and technical terms, written in simple and perspicuous language, and illustrated by facts and experiments which are level to the capacity of ordinary minds.”
“Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.”
“Although every part of the human frame has been fashioned by the same Divine hand and exhibits the most marvellous and beneficent adaptions for the use of men, the human eye stands pre-eminent above them all as the light of the body and the organ by which we become acquainted with the minutest and the nearest, the largest and most remote of the Creator’s work”
“Jesus will take me safe trough... I shall see Jesus, who created all things, Jesus, who made the worlds; I shall see Him as He is;... Yes; I have had the Light for many years, and Oh! how bright it is! I feel SO SAFE, SO SATISFIED.”
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