Animals Quote by Michael Dickinson

There's so many mysteries related to how flies are able to make their way through the world. I'd certainly like to know a lot…

— Michael Dickinson

A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such…

— Michael Dickinson

It is difficult, but intriguing, to imagine seeing the world as a fly might. First, flies don't have nearly the same visual resolution that…

— Michael Dickinson

Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really…

— Michael Dickinson

“Evolutionary psychologists suggest that, just as the eye is an evolved organ for seeing, and the wing an evolved organ for flying, so the…

— Richard Dawkins

One of the fastest things a fruit fly does is take information from its eyes and react accordingly.

— Michael Dickinson

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

— Blaise Pascal

When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at…

— Michael Dickinson

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

— David Abram

If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're actually…

— Michael Dickinson

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

— Dante Alighieri

You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks…

— Temple Grandin