Blanks Quote by Leonard Mlodinow

We also use our imagination and take shortcuts to fill gaps in patterns of nonvisual data. As with visual input, we draw conclusions and…

— Leonard Mlodinow

Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are…

— Trevor Paglen

“The picturing of data allows us to be sensitive not only to the multiple hypotheses that we hold, but to the many more we…

— Tukey 1974

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

— Anonymous

“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and Photoshopped world very…

— Brené Brown

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

— Burton Silverman

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

— Ernst Mach

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker

Clarity is important. Part of what I'm trying to do with some of these pictures is eliminate as much of the potential, as many…

— Kerry James Marshall

To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

— E. O. Wilson

Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.

— Edward Burtynsky