The Eye Quotes

“I swear I am happy. I have realized that the only happiness in this world is to observe, to spy, to watch, to scrutinize oneself and others, to be nothing but a big, slightly vitreous, somewhat bloodshot, unblinking eye. I swear that this is happiness.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“And then will come the day when the last person who remembers me will die.”
― Nabokov

“There's always Gold amongst Silver but they don't know it and there's always Silver amongst Gold but they don't show it.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Some people are so talented that they have the millions that they are chasing for within, blinded by the chase.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“We are invited by Dawkins and Darwin to believe that the evolution of the eye proceeded step-by-step through a series of plausible intermediates in infinitesimal increments. But are they infinitesimal? Remember that the "light-sensitive spot" that Dawkins takes as his atarting point requires a cascade of factors, including 11-cis-retinal and rhodopsin, to function.
Dawkins doesn't mention them. And where did the "little cup" come from? A ball of cells--from which the cup must be made--will tend to be rounded unless held in the correct shape by molecular supports. In fact, there are dozens of complex proteins involved in mantaining cell shape, and dozens more that control extracellular structure; in their absence, cells take the shape of so many soap bubbles. Do these structures represent single-step mutations? Dawkins did not tell us how the apparently simple "cup" shape came to be. And although he reassures us that any "translucent material" would be an improvement (recall that Haeckel mistakenly thought it would be easy to produce cells since they were certainly just "simple lumps"), we are not told how difficult it is to produce a "simple lens". In short, Dawkins's explanation is only addressed to the level of what is called gross anatomy.”
― Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

“Temel bir yasa aramak aptalcadır, bulmaksa daha da aptalca. Kötü ruhlu küçük bir insan, insanlığın tüm gidişatının Zodiyak'ın sinsice dönüp duran burçlarıyla ya da boş ve dolu bir mide arasındaki mücadeleyle açıklanabileceğine karar verir; titiz bir bağnaz Clio'ya yazman tutar ve böylece çağlar ve kitlelerle toptan ticarete başlar; o zaman ekonomik nedenlerin yoğun gelişimlerinin orta yerinden umarsızca seslenen, iki zavallı y'siyle bireyy'in vay haline. Neyseki böyle yasalar yoktur: bir diş ağrısı bir savaşa malolur, hafif bir yağmur bir ihtilali önleyebilir. Her şey akışkan, her şey şansa bağlıdır...”
― Vladimir Nabokov