Eyes Do More Than See

Infobox short story |
name = Eyes Do More Than See
author = Isaac Asimov
country = United States
language = English
genre = Science fiction short story
publication_type = Periodical
published_in = "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"
publisher = Fantasy House
media_type = Print (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback)
pub_date = April 1965

"Eyes Do More Than See" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was commissioned by Playboy magazine and intended to be based on a photograph of a clay head without ears. Two other writers (?) were commissioned to do the same thing, but whilst their stories were accepted, Asimov's was quickly rejected. It was published later in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in April 1965. It has since been anthologised several times and has been included in Asimov's collection "Nightfall and Other Stories" (1969).

The story is very short; about three pages in paperback.

In the very distant future - about a trillion years in the future - humans have long since abandoned physical form and they exist as energy entities spanning space.

Two of these entities, known only as Ames and Brock, tire of artistic competitions using manipulations of energy. They discuss a new project in which they attempt to manipulate physical matter, and Ames creates a head. Brock, who was once a woman, is painfully reminded of her physical past and that she once knew love. She adds tears to the head and then flees. Ames remembers that he had once been a man and the force of his vortex splits the head as he turns in search of Brock.