Quotes About Observer

If a force can disappear purely because the point of view of the observer changes, then this means the force does not exist: it is dependent on the observer, it has no objective reality (i.e., not all observers experience it as real). It is not a real force. Therefore, Einstein realised gravity was just a fictitious force.

The room wasn't a mess, but there was clutter. Last week's Observer on the arm of a chair, a couple of books on the table.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

Fisher Ames, always a shrewd observer of the scene, mused that "a spirit of faction . . . must soon come to a crisis." He foresaw that congressional Republicans would discard their comparatively decorous criticism of Washington's first term:

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

From his earliest years, Alfred Hitchcock was a loner and a watcher, an observer rather than a participant. "I don't remember ever having a playmate," he recalled as an adult. At family gatherings: "I would sit quietly in a corner, saying nothing. I looked and observed a great deal. I've always been that way and still am. I was anything but expansive. I was a loner—can't even remember having had a playmate. I played by myself, inventing my own games.

humankind's fundamental understanding of the nature of reality. If an observer could alter the universe by his observation, then didn't the universe require consciousness to even exist?

La existencia del Observador constituye el evento más sorprendente e inesperado del Universo.

Habit has two parts, Toni [Packer] says. There is the habit itself (finger biting, smoking, drinking, whatever), and there is the observer who wants to stop, who is also a habit. And there is the conflict, the battle between the desire to indulge, which is an escape from what is, and the desire to stop, which is also a movement away from what is.

stood there and watched and didn't do a thing to help me.

It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.

Madame will forgive me for not perceiving her busyness. It is a sign of the highest breeding to be able to be busy whilst appearing idle to the uninformed observer.

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, a bespectacled Republican with a grizzled beard, who was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard College and Law School. A former member of the Free-Soil Party, an upright gentleman of starchy integrity, he had served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court where he used sarcasm to savage lesser mortals. "When on the bench," wrote an observer, "he was said to be unhappy because he could not decide against both litigants.

And without an external observer, do we all just exist in an array of all possible states at once?

young man had a steed which was the observed of all observers. It was a Bearn pony, from twelve to fourteen years old, yellow in his hide, without a hair

Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion.

The observer effect in quantum physics states that where you direct your attention is where you place your energy. As a consequence, you affect the material world.

Pero sólo cuando el observador se fija en cualquier localización de un electrón, es cuando aparece ese electrón. En suma, una partícula no puede manifestarse en la realidad, es decir, en el espacio-tiempo tal como nosotros lo conocemos, hasta que es observada.