"There's more to seeing that meets the eye." (K. T. Cole)
"There is no truth. There is only perception." (Gustave Flaubert)
"Everyone hears only what he understands." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception."(Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
"We hear and apprehend only what we already half know." (Henry David Thoreau)
"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic." (Edward de Bono)
"We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see." (Henry David Thoreau)
"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." (Aldous Huxley)
"We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message." (Cullen Hightower)
"The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comrehend." (Henri Bergson)
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is -- infinite." (William Blake)
"It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive." (C. W. Leadbeater)
"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings." (Richard Dawkins)
"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing." (Camille Pissarro)
"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." (Hans Margolius)
"Science is nothing but perception." (Plato)
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um. what was our homework involving the quotes again?
"Science is nothing but perception." (Plato)
I believe that what Plato said has some truth but is not fully correct. The fact is that that Science is knowledge, and knowledge has been and always will be perception. This is because they believe that Science has been constantly changing due to advances in our technology, and our perception of Science is what we believe to be most correct and logical according to what our current technology can show us. However, I believe there is Science that has proven to be true and can therefore no longer be considered as perception. For example, in ages long past, people used to believe that trepanning was the cure to most sicknesses, which would not do anything in helping cure those sicknesses. On the other hand, in our modern day world, we have things such as drugs, surgery and other medical technology which have proven to completely, or almost completely cure people of these sicknesses. There is also the fact that we have been able to develop technology to the point of being able to travel to the moon and use satellites and probes to carry out research on other planets. So, if our Science has been able to develop to the accuracy in which we are able to break the boundaries that were once believed to be unbreakable, and prove things that we once believed were improvable, how could it be that this Science is still to be considered as perception? On the whole, I believe that any Science that has been proven should be considered as being truth, while scientific belief that has not fully been proven, such as Supernatural phenomena, e.g. ghosts and hauntings, will remain as being perception until proven not to be.
"Science is nothing but perception." (Plato)
While this may have been correct in his time, I don't believe that this would be in ours. Today, what we are taught and indeed, what everyone agrees in the field of science is that the factor of human perception should be eliminated, and thus a variety of tests, laws and equations were created. These, I believe, aren't products of perception, but are ways of proving answers to questions perhaps the philosophers of yore could've had. With that said, philosophy probably involves more perception than science ever could have, thus the multiple schools of reasoning and philosophical answers to such things as the origin of knowledge.
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