|
Edward Colin Cherry
(23 Jun 1914 - 23 Nov 1979)
British electrical engineer who was granted the Fourth Marconi International Fellowship (1978) in recognition of scientific achievement for the benefit of humanity in the field of communications science or technology.
|
Science Quotes by Edward Colin Cherry (1 quote)
The human senses (above all, that of hearing) do not possess one set of constant parameters, to be measured independently, one at a time. It is even questionable whether the various 'senses' are to be regarded as separate, independent detectors. The human organism is one integrated whole, stimulated into response by physical signals; it is not to be thought of as a box, carrying various independent pairs of terminals labeled 'ears', 'eyes', 'nose', et cetera.
— Edward Colin Cherry
On Human Communication: A Review, A Survey and a Criticism (1957), 127-8.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
