Quotes About Observation

Early in the twentieth century, the physicist Lord Rutherford, best known for his landmark discovery of the atomic nucleus, famously pronounced, "All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

We often fail to notice things that we are not expecting.

Why should we have perfect senses that can directly perceive everything? The big lesson of physics over the centuries is how much is hidden from our view. From

His eyes, those famously blue eyes, narrow and his lips quirk slightly.

The biggest problem with melancholy is that it is more detailed than the world.

He made eye contact but he kept it like casual observation, not a fixed stare. He held his arms at his sides, not only because it was less threatening, but they'd be able to fend off a blow. He cleared the doorway so he'd have an escape route.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Mychael said the rock's not affecting you, and from what I'm seeing I'm inclined to agree." "I beg to differ." "Feeling evil?" Justinius asked. "No." "Having an urge to overthrow governments, kill thousands?" "No and no." "Take over the world?" "Too much work.

I think he prefers 'traitor mage housecleaning' to diplomacy," I observed. Mychael took a healthy swig of his own wine. "Don't we all? It's certainly easier to know when you're making progress.

She glanced left and right, all wide-eyed and innocent. Innocent as a streetwalker.

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.

The difference between accomplished birders and beginning birders is that accomplished birders have misidentified thousands of birds and beginning birders relatively few.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw, the less he spoke; The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Stop looking ahead, stop looking back. Stop... look around.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.

Going out with a jerky guy is kind of like having a piece of food caught in your teeth. All your friends notice it before you do.

From Joe Gardener's Notebook "You are taste and smell and feeling of pen on paper, you are perfect- Do you know how perfect you are? .. I am nothing but a pair of eyes, waiting to be looked into

People were pointing and muttering to each other

at us all on the front deck. Aaron's mom was sitting on the front benches with her and Mom. She looked just like Aaron, thin and pale, with jet

I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. 'See how richly they are clad,' he said. 'Even King Solomon did not have such raiment.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own object.