The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.
Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.
As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.