“My son Robert, the scientist, told me at dinner that blue is not blue. That what we call blue is actually something that absorbs all other energy frequencies and rejects blue. Our eyes see the frequencies cast off as blue and we call it blue. I wondered, are we defined by the things we are, or the things we reject?”

— Stephen Tobolowsky

Stephen Tobolowsky in a Facebook post on July 3, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/stephentobolowsky/posts/897200563629843.

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