Artificial Light Quotes

“We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago.”
― Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

“...if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon.”
― steven johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

“Light and the human is poorly understood by the astronomical
profession, with many astronomers not understanding which light bulbs they should have in their own
homes and offices! It is embarrassing that astronomers do not understand the many forms of artificial
lighting that they are exposed to every day and how it affects them.”
― Steven Magee

“Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans.”
― Steven Magee