Quotes About Interpretation

Is that where it all went wrong? Or is it where it all went right?

Of course the Greeks were not the only people to weave a tapestry of legends and lore out of the puzzling fabric of existence.

The Graeae's names, as so often in Greek myth, have meanings. Pemphredo is "she who guides the way," Enyo "warlike," and Dino "terrible" (as in dinosaur, which means "terrible lizard").

oneiromancy

This is so similar to the story of Apollo and Hyacinthus that you wonder if some bard somewhere got drunk or confused.

Absolutely,' lies Zeus, who has, in common with us all, a horror of hearing the details of anyone else's dreams.

A point of view, a single way of thinking that encompasses all elements of a subject, allows essays more or less to write themselves.

The man waxed his mustache. In Sebastian's book, that was never a good sign.

You should have said where fact ends and fantasy begins. If that's what you wanted to know." "Isn't it the same thing?" "No, it's not. Mother's like a spring flower. That's not strictly a fact. But it is true.

What you intend when you approach something in the world determines, to varying extents, the degree of sensory gating that occurs as you perceive that phenomenon. Intent, task demands, cognitive template, and gating defaults all affect what you sensorally perceive when a part of the exterior world and you meet. More colloquially, all of us see what we expect to see.

model-dependent realism. It is based on the idea that our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a model is successful at explaining events, we tend to attribute to it, and to the elements and concepts that constitute it, the quality of reality or absolute truth.

The naive view of reality therefore is not compatible with modern physics. To deal with such paradoxes we shall adopt an approach that we call model-dependent realism. It is based on the idea that our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a model is successful at explaining events, we tend to attribute to it, and to the elements and concepts that constitute it, the quality of reality or absolute truth.

realismo dependiente del modelo», basada en la idea de que nuestros cerebros interpretan los datos de los órganos sensoriales elaborando un modelo del mundo. Cuando el modelo explica satisfactoriamente los acontecimientos tendemos a atribuirle, a él y a los elementos y conceptos que lo integran, la calidad de realidad o verdad absoluta.

realismo dependiente del modelo», basada en la idea de que nuestros cerebros interpretan los datos de los órganos sensoriales elaborando un modelo del mundo.

Ä'hn ?i, múa nhiêu qúa?" "Ph?i roi, ch?c không có ngú?i m? dêm na?

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.

La nueva interpretación de la fauna de Burguess Shale es una de las transformaciones más invisibles por dos razones básicas, pero su capacidad para modificar nuestra concepción de la vida no puede ser igualada por ningún otro descubrimiento paleontológico.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,´Roland said. ´Was He ever married?´ The corners of Callahan's mouth quirked. ´No´ he said, ´but His girlfriend was a whore.´ ´Well,´ Roland said, ´that's a start.´

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

The medical definition of miracle is misdiagnosis.