Augustin-Jean Fresnel quotes

Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French engineer and physicist, renowned for his pioneering work in the field of wave optics. His research led to the development of the Fresnel lens, which revolutionized lighthouse technology and greatly improved navigation safety. He made significant contributions to the understanding of light as a wave phenomenon. Here are 5 of his quotes:

I find nothing so painful as having to lead men.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

It was not observation but theory which led me to this result which experience then confirmed.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

If nature has offered to produce the maximum effect with minimum causes, it is in all of its laws that it had to solve this major problem.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

In choosing a system, one should only consider the simplicity of the assumptions; that of calculations cannot be of any weight in the balance of probabilities. Nature has not bothered with the difficulties of analysis; it only avoided the complication of means. She seems to have proposed to do much with little: it is a principle that the improvement of the physical sciences constantly supports new evidence.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel