Michael Dickinson Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit it to the brain, but the brain doesn't know how to process it yet. We learn how to see in a way that's very similar to the way we learn how to speak. It takes a couple of years.

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

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

Animals see a video of the world. If an animal were only to see still images, how would its vision develop? Neuroscientists have run experiments in cats in a dark environment with a strobe so it can only see still images - and those cats' visual systems actually underdevelop. So motion is important, but what is the algorithm?

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.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

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 least touchable object in the world is the eye.

The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

'Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).

One of the fastest things a fruit fly does is take information from its eyes and react accordingly.

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.