Wissner Bosserhoff Quotes & Sayings

It was the merit of Gestalt psychology to make us aware of the remarkable performance involved in perceiving shapes. Take, for example, a ball or an egg: we can see their shapes at a glance. Yet suppose that instead of the impression made on our eye by an aggregate of white points forming the surface of an egg, we were presented with another, logically equivalent, presentation of these points as given by a list of their spatial co-ordinate values. It would take years of labour to discover the shape inherent in this aggregate of figures - provided it could be guessed at all. The perception of the egg from the list of co-ordinate values would, in fact, be a feat rather similar in nature and measure of intellectual achievement to the discovery of the Copernican system. — Michael Polanyi

Art didn't have to provide answers. It only had to ask questions. — Christopher Bollen

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt. — Antony Gormley

So many women come to me saying, "I have lost too,
and this one, and this one". So many embryos retreat
to flesh: the live cell of the mother. Don't tell me that it
will happen for me, when the only sure thing is a miracle:
the sperm nuzzling in its nest and the egg that opens, explodes. — Zoe Brigley

The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning. — Richard Dawkins

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. — Vicki Baum

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves. — Rosanne Cash