“A wise man decided to observe the properties of light. To that end he procured an oil lamp and conducted a series of experiments, in course of which he observed that:
a pure oil gives out more light than an impure one,
a longer wick gives out more light than a shorter one,
light pales when the wick bends or is pressed down with a stick,
and so on.
Once he finished his experiments he concluded that:
light is a function of the wick and the oil, and does not exist without them,
light has no properties other than those which can be observed by manipulating the wick with a stick,
once the wick burns down — light disappears.”
-by Boleslaw Prus
