Color Vision Deficiency

Famous quotes containing the words color, vision and/or deficiency:

    “Pockets: What color is a giraffe?
    Dallas: Well, mostly yellow.
    Pockets: And what’s the color of a New York taxi cab?
    Dallas: Mostly yellow.
    Pockets: I drove a cab in Brooklyn. I just pretend it’s rush hour in Flatbush and in I go.”
    —Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)

    “One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    “Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)