Sense
Senses are physiological capacities of organisms that provide data for perception. The senses and their operation, classification, and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields, most notably neuroscience, cognitive psychology (or cognitive science), and philosophy of perception. The nervous system has a specific sensory system or organ, dedicated to each sense.
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Famous quotes containing the word sense:
“I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite,—only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)