Richard L. Gregory > Quotes

“..the senses do not give us a picture of the world directly; rather they provide evidence for checking hypotheses about what lies before us. Indeed we may say that a perceived object is a hypothesis, suggested and tested by sensory data.”
― Richard Langton Gregory

“the greatest scientists from other fields—notably Francis Crick, who with James Watson and colleagues transformed how we think of life itself, through the discovery of the structure and significance of the DNA molecule.”
― Richard L. Gregory, Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing

“This is crude, however, compared with bird flight.”
― Richard L. Gregory, Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing