Noun
That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMusic is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. Claude Debussy
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry. Christopher Wren
It will reward enough for me if, by the publication of the present experiment, I have directed the attention of investigators to this subject, which still promises much for physicial optics and appears to open a new field. Joseph von Fraunhofer
Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion. Joyce Carol Oates
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. Walter Benjamin
But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. John Trumbull