Torsten Wiesel famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.
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Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.
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Oh, no, I was afraid of that! I'd better go and hide.
-- Torsten Wiesel
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Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.
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If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently
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As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
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All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.
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You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.
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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
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We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.
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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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