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By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.

 - Democritus

[Regarding the Model T Ford]. . . Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

 - Henry Ford

People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by colour, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.

 - Florence Nightingale