"…Once I came upon a phrase of Plato that "The creating gods constructed first light-bearing eyes, and these they fixed in the face". 

I read it and thought that if a place on Olympus and a part in Creation had been granted to me, I would most probably have done the same. 

Leaving alone gods, ancient legends and tragedies… the fact remains: it is by eyes we get 95% of information about the world. The eyes give a man as much as a thousand distinct impressions every minute."

          Svjatoslav Fjodorov.