Any Quote by Michael Dickinson

“Flies are of course always irksome, but the Australian variety distinguishes itself with its very particular persistence. If an Australian fly wants to be…

— Bill Bryson

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

It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the…

— Michael Dickinson

If flies are a great model, they're a great model for flies. These animals, you know, they're not like us. We don't fly. We…

— Michael Dickinson

“We are quiet, contemplative people, and our behaviour in the field is relatively aristocratic. Running is not necessarily beneath our dignity but it is…

— Fredrik Sjöberg

If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the stimulus is…

— Moshe Feldenkrais

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

I think there's a correlation between mechanically being in the right place and the body moving the correct way to more balls being in…

— Buster Posey

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

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

— Michael Dickinson

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

— Dante Alighieri

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

— Douglas Adams