The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to whether they received or emanated light.


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For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members o...
TIM WISE
I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Wh...
TIM TEBOW
Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Wh...
TIM O'BRIEN
The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are ...
TIM HUDSON
You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preach...
TIM HUDSON
Sure, I like ice cream, but when you keep a healthy lifestyle, it's: Do you prefer sweets and cr...
TIM HOWARD
I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.
TIM TEBOW
Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal.
TIM COOK
I don't complain when it's sunny.
TIM HOWARD
We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.
TIM TEBOW
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as t...
TIM JACKSON
I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Chri...
TIM TEBOW
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
TIM CAHILL
America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.
TINY TIM
Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for someb...
TIM HETHERINGTON
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious ...
TIM HARFORD
I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.
TIM COOK
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
TIM BURTON
You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible m...
TIM MATHESON
I think there are a lot of things out there that are humorous that people don't realize until yo...
TIM CONWAY
Firms produce goods for households - that's us - and provide us with incomes, and that's eve...
TIM JACKSON
Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a h...
TIM O'BRIEN
The mindfulness revolution is not quite as dramatic as the moon shot or the civil rights movement, b...
TIM RYAN
Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in ...
TIM KAINE
Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chroni...
TIM MURPHY
And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you&#...
TIM TEBOW
I can't take classified information that I get as a senator and give it to someone with no conse...
TIM KAINE
I always liked strange characters.
TIM BURTON
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of y...
TIM ROTH
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues'...
TIM CAHILL
I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was ...
TIM ROBBINS
I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the h...
TIM BURTON
Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.
TIM FARGO
Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man ...
TIM CAHILL