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: THE EYE : ....the compound eye of the male horsefly....arrays about 7000 lenses in crystalline rows like a microscopic honeycomb....they register the movement of any visible object in front of their lens with such efficiency that a fly may accurately judge the speed of anything from the minute hand on a watch to a swooping bird or a flashing tail....This also explains why honeybees are particularly attracted to flowers swaying across their line of sight. -Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science and Philosophy, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1978, p.184. : Have you ever wondered why : the cat and owl look straight ahead : and the rabbit and dear see sideways? : Their eyes are coordinated stereoscopically : to ensure 360 degree vision. : Have you ever wondered why : some human beings see truth : everywhere they look and others : seem to be blind as well as deaf? : They seem to have turned on the : lamp of search and striving, : even devotion to learning. : The owl can swivel its neck more : than a full circle in a tenth of a second. : The much-hunted woodbird has eyes : in the back of its head; a gecko’s eyes : look like four diamonds; kingfishers : have eight times as many cells in : their retinas to notice fish or mice : for the great downward swoop. : Humankind is endowed : with the greatest of tools : for the rational faculty: the eye. : He has eyes to see but sees not : and ears to hear but hears not. : He sees with the eyes of his neighbour, : but not his own eyes; : and knows from the knowledge : of others but not his own knowledge. : Ron Price : 5 January 1996

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