George Chapman (1559–1634) English dramatist, poet, and translator
Book III, line 167, p. 41
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
“Life invented it first, Zoe thought, like so many other things. Like eyes: Turning photon impacts into neurochemical events with such subtlety that a frog can target a fly and a man can admire a rose.”
— Robert Charles Wilson, book Bios
Source: Bios (1999), Chapter 25 (p. 194)
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