Ur Eyes Quote by C.S. Lewis

The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to…

— Ellen Meloy

“Just as the spectrums of light and sound are far broader than what we humans can see and hear, so the spectrum of mental…

— Yuval Noah Harari

A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it…

— John Medina

“Things appear, they would say, as we see them through our limited senses; but they must present entirely different aspects to those that differ…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“The retina absorbs the light via sensitive light-gathering cells ... In humans these cells make up about 70 percent of all the sensory cells…

— Neil Shubin

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

— Francis Stevens

Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest…

— Annie Dillard

Vision sees what could be.

— Johnny Hunt

In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“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

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human…

— Thomas Mann

The 'phenomenal concept' issue is rather different, I think. Here the question is whether there are concepts of experiences that are made available to…

— David Papineau