Tim Birkhead Quotes

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

The fruit flies we work with have the equivalent of about a 25 by 25 pixel camera. But that camera is very, very fast, about 10 times faster than the human visual system.

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.

The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to whether they received or emanated light.

There are several ways we can know what a dog, a bird or, indeed, any other organism can see, for example either by looking at the structure of the eye and comparing it with other species, or by behavioural tests.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

If you look at how beautiful the eye can be, it has its own inside patterns and colors.

We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.

The eyeball is contained in the cavity of the orbit. In this situation, it is securely protected from injury, whilst its position is such as to ensure the most extensive range of sight.

You are either visual or you're not.

There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.

One of the things I really love about 3D is that because as we grow older on eye weakens more than the other, 3D becomes more difficult for adults to watch than it is for children who have very balanced eyes often.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

It's forcing the issue of perception by rendering an image that is just at the edge of perception, which in someway forces you to look more closely and for you to adjust your vision so you can see in the dark.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.