"The true magic of glass is in its ability to capture and manipulate light. It isn’t a source of light, but light flows through it, can be broken by it and re-formed. There’s no other material quite like it. Looking through glass has enabled people to see the world in innumerable ways. It was only by harnessing the magnifying power of glass that our ancestors gained access to understanding the nature of the very big and the very small. Think about it, without glass we wouldn't have telescopes and microscopes and would be operating from a very limited perspective of the world." -Treg Silkwood