What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges, and opposite electric charges cling to each other.

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.