Sensory Limits Quotes

Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. We use our five natural senses to perceive information. But the huge amount of information mankind has accumulated and stored online cannot be perceived by these senses.

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.