George Carey Quotes

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

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

Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

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?

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Everyone makes sexy sounds; relatively few, sexy sights.

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

The inner eye does not see upon command.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.