Retina Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our…
— Ray Kurzweil
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Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of…
— Georges Clemenceau
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There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream…
— Gelett Burgess
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In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart. That was his…
— Gabi Hollows
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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 brain.…
— Ellen Meloy
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If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the…
— Thomas Young
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The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to…
— Johannes Peter Muller
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The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the 'third' eye. Just like the two seeing eyes, the…
— Rick Strassman
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Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The…
— Kim Stanley
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Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or…
— John Singer Sargent
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It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of…
— Johannes Peter Muller
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With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to…
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
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The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, ..…
— Daniel Dennett
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There are faint stars in the night sky that you can see, but only if you look to the side of where they shine. They…
— Janna Levin
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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain,…
— Jules Verne
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When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means…
— Alan Watts
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It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense…
— John Updike
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If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise new ways of repairing its…
— Sebastian Seung
Who Wrote These Retina Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Retina Quotes as follows: