We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.


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In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely sligh...
GABRIEL LIPPMANN
The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours ar...
GABRIEL LIPPMANN
When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection...
GABRIEL LIPPMANN
Life is short and progress is slow.
GABRIEL LIPPMANN
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen m...
GABRIEL LIPPMANN
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas ar...
WILLIAM LIPPMANN
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
WALTER CRONKITE
I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center&#...
WALTER O'BRIEN
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poure...
WALTER BECKER
There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that ...
WALTER BECKER
We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet hav...
WALTER BECKER
All our wives are experimental psychologists.
WALTER BECKER
If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I...
WALTER BECKER
I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the gr...
WALTER BECKER
From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show ...
WALTER BECKER
That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid...
WALTER BECKER
You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER
'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER
There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER
'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER
The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER
I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER
I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER
It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER
People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER
Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER
When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER
I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
WALTER BAGEHOT