In Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End ( 1953 ), though written after the present flood of dystopias began, we can see the bright vision of science fiction clearly defined.

At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.

He could not see objects as unified, self-contained, and organized figures, as a person does with normal vision.

It is, he said, a bifocal vision, which can see both the near-at-hand and the distant and keep a Christian in right relation to both.

In a mighty castle stands the Round Table ; it is here that Galahad conquers the Siege Perilous, and where the knights see a vision of the Holy Grail and swear to find it.

In reality, a viewer would need visual acuity 17, 000 times better than normal ( 20 / 20 ) to see the Wall from the Moon, and vision 8 times better than normal to see it from low earth orbit.

They are also known to form polyspecific groups with tamarins, perhaps because Goeldi's Marmosets are not known to have the X-linked polymorphism which enables some individuals of other New World Monkey species to see in full tri-chromatic vision.

In the Eastern Orthodox Philokalia it was emphasized that such knowledge is not secret knowledge but rather a maturing, transcendent form of knowledge derived from contemplation ( theoria resulting from practice of hesychasm ), since knowledge cannot truly be derived from knowledge but rather knowledge can only be derived from theoria ( to witness, see ( vision ) or experience ).

Throughout her life, she continued to have many visions, and in 1141, at the age of 42, Hildegard received a vision she believed to be an instruction from God, to " write down that which you see and hear.

The IAEA's mission is guided by the interests and needs of Member States, strategic plans and the vision embodied in the IAEA Statute ( see below ).

It is able to see as far away as, but because its retinas only contain cones, it is thought to have poor night vision.

Thus they will be more likely to see flicker or any sort of temporal distortion in a display image by not looking directly at the display, because their eyes ' rod cells are mostly grouped at the periphery of their vision.

This is due not to reflection, but to radiation of core body heat in the form of infrared light ( see Night vision ).

The device does not reproduce normal human vision, but does allow the character to " see " energy phenomena invisible to the naked human eye, as well as allowing him to view things at infrared and at microscopic levels.

" It is this vision that scholars have called Paine's " secular millennialism " and it appears in all of his works — he ends the Rights of Man, for example, with the statement: " From what we now see, nothing of reform in the political world ought to be held improbable.

Many species can see light with frequencies outside the " visible spectrum ," which is defined in terms of human vision.

His close-up vision was better than normal, enabling him to see detail missed by others.

Without his glasses, he is blind as a bat ; with them, he can see clearer and farther than a man with perfect vision.

The ship's motto, as engraved on its dedication plaque, is a quote from the poem Locksley Hall by Alfred Tennyson: " For I dipt in to the future, far as human eye could see ; Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

NASA utilized synthetic vision for test pilots on the HiMAT program in the early 1980s ( see photo ), but the advent of more autonomous UAV autopilots, greatly reduced the need for this technology.

She initially ignores severe headaches and brief episodes of dizziness and double vision, but when she uncharacteristically takes a spill while riding, and then tumbles down a flight of stairs, her secretary / best friend Ann King ( Geraldine Fitzgerald ) insists she see the family doctor, who refers her to a specialist.

Guinea pig sight is not as good as a human, but they have a wider angle of vision ( about 340 °) and see in partial color ( dichromacy ).

Later, Qui-Gon, voiced by Fred Tatasciore, makes a full cameo appearance in a dream sequence, in which he tells a circa Episode I Anakin to enter a mysterious cave, where the boy will see a vision of his future.

Living in San Francisco I saw them seldom enough to see them with a perspective which was not distorted by exasperation or fatigue.

Sometimes she displays amazing eidetic imagery and seems to see all details in perspective, as if the scene were actually there.

By tipping the porter, you can see in the courtyard Borromini's unusual and fascinating trick in perspective.

Subsequent modifications of Watson's perspective and that of " classical conditioning " ( see under Ivan Pavlov ) led to the rise of operant conditioning or " radical behaviorism ," a theory advocated by B. F. Skinner, which took over the academic establishment up through the 1950s and was synonymous with " behaviorism " for many.

* Symbolic modeling evolved from the computer science paradigms using the technologies of Knowledge-based systems, as well as a philosophical perspective, see for example " Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence " ( GOFAI ).

Gnosticism attributed falsehood, fallen or evil, to the concept of Demiurge or Creator ( see Zeus and Prometheus ), though sometimes the creator is from a fallen, ignorant or lesser, rather than evil, perspective ( in some Gnosticism traditions ), such as that of Valentinius.

The second is the perspective of the spectator as they see the female character on screen.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a paleontologist and geologist, believed that evolution unfolded from cell to organism to planet to solar system and ultimately the whole universe, as we humans see it from our limited perspective.

Yet another German diplomat noted that, " He did not have the capacity to form an overview ; to see things in perspective.

Among the many practical functions of imagination are the ability to project possible futures ( or histories ), to " see " things from another's perspective, and to change the way something is perceived, including to make decisions to respond to, or enact, what is imagined.

A memory leak has symptoms similar to a number of other problems ( see below ) and generally can only be diagnosed by a programmer with access to the program source code ; however, many people refer to any unwanted increase in memory usage as a memory leak, though this is not strictly accurate from a technical perspective.

If I have seen that from an ethical point of view I am just one person among the many in my society, and my interests are no more important, from the point of view of the whole, than the similar interests of others within my society, I am ready to see that, from a still larger point of view, my society is just one among other societies, and the interests of members of my society are no more important, from that larger perspective, than the similar interests of members of other societies ...

* For an historical perspective see Timeline of heat engine technology.

After the emergency surgery, Valentino loses his grip of reality and begins to see the recollection of his life in Hollywood from a perspective of a coma-as a silent film shown at a movie palace, the magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion.

Therefore the consciousness of God is not obtainable to created beings either in this life or the next ( see apophatism ), though through co-operation with God ( called theosis ) Mankind can become good ( God-like ) and from such a perspective reconcile himself to the Knowledge of Good and the Knowledge of Evil he consumed in the Garden of Eden ( see the Fall of Man ).

While shrunk, he can see previously explored parts of a dungeon from a different perspective, and enter areas through otherwise-impassable openings.

As long as Israel was, from its own perspective, part of a community of similar small nations, it made sense to see the Israelite pantheon on par with the other nations, each one with its own patron god – the picture described with Deuteronomy 32: 8 – 9.

Active research traditions related to the unconscious include implicit memory ( see priming, implicit attitudes ), and nonconscious acquisition of knowledge ( see Lewicki, see also the section on cognitive perspective, below ).

This perspective proposes that gender difference is socially constructed ( see Social construction of gender difference ).

For more on the philosophical ideas that inspired this perspective, see cognitive science of mathematics.

* The ratio of two energies: ( i ) the energy needed to overcome the electrostatic repulsion between two electrons a distance of d apart, and ( ii ) the energy of a single photon of wavelength ( from a modern perspective, of angular wavelength r = d ; see Planck relation ):