Attributes Quote by Albert Einstein

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand,…

— Albert Einstein

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human…

— Albert Einstein

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with…

— Albert Einstein

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we…

— William James

“An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not…

— Nigel Hey

The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of…

— William James

“It is extremely interesting, then, to think about the meaning of the word ‘form’ as it applies to constructions of arbitrarily complex shapes. For…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

“To gain a true understanding of human experience, we must understand both our conscious and our unconscious selves, and how they interact. Our subliminal…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“The collective sensation is one’s perspective, experience, memory, imagination, and perception.”

— Pearl Zhu

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

— Stefano Gabbana

“When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can feel it,…

— Jeff VanderMeer