Michael Dickinson Quotes

When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But in my lab, you really see a marvelous machine: arguably the most sophisticated flying device on the planet.

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

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

I'm able to be able to achieve certain things that others aren't - whether it's a reaction time or the idea of a coffee that's about to be spilled and I'm able to grab it before anyone else or whatever it is.

Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.

I've been blessed with great hand-eye coordination.

I think I've lost that ability to slow things down - that ability drivers have to calculate what's coming by you at tremendous speed. I used to have it.

I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.

Everything is in the timing, I think. I see the ball earlier than the others so maybe that's why I have a good return.

When you get older, the first thing that starts to go is reflexes, and reflexes are important for any person, especially an athlete - to react to something in a time when something is going on, and you can't be a second or two behind.

In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.

Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

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

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.

The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.

That Asian guy is really good at kicking. Shocking. Someone is pressing 'A' really fast somewhere.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.