EYE SEE!: The structure, function, and evolution of the eye has provoked careful thought and wild conjecture throughout scientific history.LAITR KEIOWS/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
—University of Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins writing about The Probability of God, the 1985 book by Bishop Hugh Montefiore, in The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (1986)
—The late Yoshiki Sasai of Japan’s RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, who grew retinal tissue from mouse embryonic stem cells, speaking with Mosaic in January, 2014 (Published August 26)
—Vision scientist Peter Bex of Northeastern University, on the fact that one-third of the human brain is devoted to visual processing(news@Northeastern, September 4)
—Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Remarks on Colour (1950–51)
—Geerat Vermeij, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Davis, in a speech delivered at the convention of the National Federation of the Blind in Chicago about the challenges ...
