Quotes About Perspective

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

Art can contradict Science.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.