James J. Gibson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
-- James J. Gibson

#Believe #Mean #Latter
The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
-- James J. Gibson

#Values
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
-- James J. Gibson

#Space #Analysis #World
Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.
-- James J. Gibson

#Meaningful #Shapes
Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.
-- James J. Gibson

#Philosophy #Color #Medicine
The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.
-- James J. Gibson

#Heart #Space #Depth
A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
-- James J. Gibson

#Energy #Encounters #Tissues

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.
We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

James J. Gibson famous quotes

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