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:
“Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.”
—Robert Neelly Bellah (20th century)
“The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human lifeto reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)
“The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)