Quotes About Observer

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

In my opinion—which is as good as yours and anybody else's—truth depends on the point of view, on the subjective reality of the observer, and on certain conditions, such as time, place, and the will to be done.

Coincidentally, the solver of the riddle (how the speed of light appears to a moving observer) would be born in the year of Maxwell's death.

The jailer voiced a roar that was intended to be on par with that of an infuriated lion, and indeed sounded like that to him in his own head (but to an observer or listener was much more akin to a consumptive mallard) and sped—which is to say moved with slightly less slowness than he typically did—to the cell that he had just absented.

Time is always constant to the observer

But the very nature of linear time implies that—from an external observer viewpoint—the history of the entire universe from creation to heat death exists in a static form, allowing us—consciousness—to perceive time moving in only one direction. Ergo, the universe's entirety—both space and time—was created as a complete whole. Which argues that change is not possible.

There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the law who was highly regarded by all the Jews living there,