Leonard Cohen

There are some people who come to me for some illumination on their problems. I guess they feel I'm writing about some of the things they themselves are going through. But I don't usually have much help to give - there isn't much you can say to someone in the midst of their own crises.

Canadian Singer

Jacqueline Bisset

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

English Actress

Jacob Bronowski

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

English Scientist

Elizabeth Bibesco

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

British Poet

Mary Antin

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.

Russian Activist

Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

American Critic

David Suchet

I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.

English Actor

Andrew Lang

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Scottish Poet

Vin Scully

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

American Celebrity

Romano Prodi

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

Italian Statesman

Refers to actual lights used in spaces or during events.

Physical lighting

Emphasizes beauty and decorative aspect, not just functionality.

Visual appeal

Used metaphorically to mean 'make something clear' in an intellectual way.

Clarity in Understanding

Often found in educational or intellectual discussions.

Academic context

Refers to the art of decorating manuscripts, an old tradition.

Historical artwork

This artistic sense is rare and mostly used in historical or literary contexts.

Not common usage

Used scientifically to describe light levels, especially in photography or lighting design.

Technical specification

It's a quantifiable term in physics, regarding light intensity on a surface.

Measurable quantity

 going to look around my hometown as if I were foreigner and after about two days that resolve gets but not really exactly at last but if you can do it then then you realize that you don't have to go across the world to find whatever transformation or illumination you're searching right right one of the things

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 other than through our senses. And the light that falls onto our eyes is determined by multiple things in the world, not only the color of objects, but also the color of their illumination, and the color of the space between us and those objects. You vary any one of those parameters,

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 From the Earth's surface, we can observe eight distinct traditionally recognized stages of the moon's illumination, called lunar phases. They have been observed for thousands of years, and even provided the basis for the earliest calendars.

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 only appearing red at some angles of illumination and observation. This gives us two contenders for nature’s rarest absorption-based matte blues and structural iridescent reds. Between these two, structural reds are much rarer.

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 And it is much harder, often, to be compassionate towards those closest to us, which is another quality in the universe of compassion, on its dark side, that also deserves our serious attention and illumination.

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 Together, these ingredients combine to give rise to the most awe-inspiring thunderstorms on the planet, a true sight to behold. Centuries ago, Sir Francis Drake may have cursed the lake's intense illumination,

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 So for the deep sea squid hunt, I proposed using an optical lure attached to a camera platform with no thrusters, no motors, just a battery-powered camera, and the only illumination coming from red light

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 just a battery-powered camera and the only illumination coming from red light that's invisible to most deep-sea animals that are adapted to see plant primarily blue that's visible to our eye

 Online life. So that is a vision, I think, that is possible. So, all we would need to do is to fit a small microchip to every potential illumination device.

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 illuminations a squid its lights moving as its body throbs

Illumination

The act of lighting up a space or event.

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The process of explaining and making something clear.

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A decorated letter or page in a manuscript.

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In physics, it's the amount of light per unit area.

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Physical lighting

Visual appeal

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