Imagery Quote by E. O. Wilson Download Open image “To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.” — E. O. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagery Know how Knows Science Scientist Thinking Visual imagery Visuals
If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret… — Catherine Yass Copy Share Image
Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image. — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure… — Thomas Demand Copy Share Image
The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The images we see, as a culture, help define and expand our dreams, our perceptions of what is possible. Pictures of who we are… — Tee Corinne Copy Share Image
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species'… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is… — Sappho Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“Thousands of mosquitoes had already bitten all of us on chest and arms and ankles. Then a bright idea came to me: I jumped… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess,… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself.” — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image