Barbara Januszkiewicz Quotes

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.

At Oculus, we're now looking at eye specialists, people who really understand how the human eye works, and how that affects human emotion.

My eyes are fine.

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.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

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.

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.

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.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

But concerning vision alone is a separate science formed among philosophers, namely, optics, and not concerning any other sense ... It is possible that some other science may be more useful, but no other science has so much sweetness and beauty of utility. Therefore it is the flower of the whole of philosophy and through it, and not without it, can the other sciences be known.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur

Truth reveals itself in beauty.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.

In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed and confounded by the supreme constructive ingenuity revealed not only in the retina and in the dioptric apparatus of the vertebrates but even in the meanest insect eye. ... I felt more profoundly than in any other subject of study the shuddering sensation of the unfathomable mystery of life.

Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.