The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

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.

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

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