Victoria Finlay Quote
Years later the Romantic poet John Keats would complain that on that fateful day Newton had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to prismatic colors. But color—like sound and scent—is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe—and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them.
Victoria Finlay
Years later the Romantic poet John Keats would complain that on that fateful day Newton had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to prismatic colors. But color—like sound and scent—is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe—and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them.
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