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Quotes About Observation

En realidad, una de las grandes fortalezas de la ciencia es la habilidad para inferir cosas que no podemos observar directamente a partir de las que sí podemos.
~ Ian Stewart
Muchas margaritas tienen 34 pétalos, si no, normalmente tienen 55 u 89. En general, raras veces verás una margarita con 37 pétalos y si ves una con 33 es probable que se le haya caído un pétalo. Los girasoles, los cuales pertenecen a la familia de las margaritas, normalmente tienen 55, 89 o 144 pétalos.
~ Ian Stewart
If you spend a day driving, you travel a long way and see nothing. If you spend a day walking, you travel a short distance but, in compensation, you see every small detail along the way. The efficiency of the bicycle gives you the best of both modes. On a bike, you can travel a long way and see a huge amount. The cyclist experiences both breadth and depth.
~ Unknown
I never travel without my sketch book.
~ Ian Wright
Who lives sees, but who travels sees more.
~ Ibn Battuta
A lot of times I'd step out of my own zone as Scotty Appleton and tell Wesley or Chris or Judd how shit really would get said in the game. Subtle little things like gestures and looks. Things I lived firsthand, things I witnessed, I was able to add that into the performances.
~ Unknown
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
~ Idries Shah
Remedy Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it. Hazrat Ali
~ Idries Shah
It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?
~ Idries Shah
With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.
~ Idries Shah
Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.
~ Idries Shah
Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to be its opposite.
~ Idries Shah
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
~ Idries Shah
When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when you can endure this knowledge without cynicism, as a lover of humankind, greater compensations will be open to you than a sense of your own importance or satisfaction in thinking about the unreliability of others.
~ Idries Shah
Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)
~ Idries Shah
Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.
~ Idries Shah
The best player of a game is the watcher — ask him.
~ Idries Shah
Knowledge of yourself may involve, if we are learning at the present time, a knowledge of the way of thinking of your society and to realise that you are probably its product, and that this knowledge can be attained in fact by such anthropological and psychological observations made by the Sufis in the course of their teaching how to pursue new and more promising extra perspectives.
~ Idries Shah
LA RESPUESTA A UN TONTO El proverbio dice que "la respuesta a un tonto es el silencio": La observación, sin embargo, indica que prácticamente cualquier otra respuesta tendrá el mismo efecto a largo plazo.
~ Idries Shah
If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.
~ Idries Shah
Never assume that any activity is anything more than attention-getting until you have excluded this element.
~ Idries Shah
Aprende acerca de las avispas, de aquéllos que han sido picados por ellas.
~ Idries Shah
Muéstrale a un hombre demasiados huesos de camello, o muéstraselos a menudo, y no podrá reconocer un camello vivo cuando se le cruce por delante. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)
~ Idries Shah
El mejor jugador de un juego es el espectador… pregúntale.
~ Idries Shah