Able Quote by Michael Dickinson

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

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

Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of…

— 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

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm…

— Bruce Baum

“Then they, too, lay down on mattresses stuffed with straw, hearing the music of the flies to buzz them to sleep, holding each other's…

— Orson Scott Card

...But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly as alike…

— Charles Ritz

Flies escape from the mouth that says 'A closed mouth gathers no flies.'

— John Alejandro King

For many years in my laboratory and other laboratories around the world, we've been studying fly behaviors in little flight simulators. You can tether…

— Michael Dickinson