Quotes About Observation

Moments like modulations come in human relationships: when what has been until then an objective situation, one perhaps described by the mind to itself in semi-literary terms, one it is sufficient merely to classify under some general heading (man with alcoholic problems, woman with unfortunate past, and so on) becomes subjective; becomes unique; becomes, by empathy, instantaneously shared rather than observed.

Visitors to Lyme in the nineteenth century, if they did not quite have to undergo the ordeal facing travellers to the ancient Greek colonies -Charles did not actually have to deliver a Periclean oration plus comprehensive world news summary from the steps of the Town Hall- were certainly expected to allow themselves to be examined and spoken to.

Aveam dou?zeci È™i cinci de ani, vârsta ta, Nicholas, asta-È›i poate spune mai mult decât orice cât eram de incapabil s?-l judec. Cred c? este vârsta cea mai dificil? È™i enervant?. Înseamn? a fi È™i a observa totodat?. EÈ™ti inteligent È™i considerat om în toat? firea. Unii te reduc la starea de adolescen??, pentru c? numai experienÈ›a poate s? înÈ›eleag? È™i s? asimileze.

It was simple: one lived by irony and sentiment, one observed convention. What might have been was one more subject for detached and ironic observation; as was what might be. One surrendered, in other words; one learnt to be what one was.

SIR CHARLES is an upright, well-groomed, grey-moustached, red-faced man of sixty-seven, with a keen eye for molehills, and none at all for mountains.

FALDER is sitting exactly opposite to the JUDGE, who, raised above the clamour of the court, also seems unconscious of and indifferent to everything.

Love is so whimsical in both sexes that it is impossible to be lasting. But my heart is particular and contradicts my own observation.

A glance at any human should be enough to dispel any notion that it is the work of an intelligent being.

A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material. Resentment sharpens his eye, hostility hones his killer instinct.

whole universe can be thought of as a delayed-choice experiment in which the existence of observers who notice what is going on is what imparts tangible reality to the origin of everything. Following

single electron, or a single photon, on its way through one hole in the wall, obeys the statistical laws which are only appropriate if it 'knows' whether or not the other hole is open. This is the central mystery of the quantum world.

The electrons not only know whether or not both holes are open, they know whether or not we are watching them, and they adjust their behaviour accordingly.

Nothing is real unless we look at it, and it ceases to be real as soon as we stop looking.

The one sure thing we know about the quantum world is not to trust our common sense and only to believe things we can see directly or detect unambiguously with our instruments. We don't know what goes on inside a box unless we look.

Just observe the billboards along any busy Florida highway and you'll almost wish you could get injured.

You just don't understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it's harmless. We all look. Come on.

I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view.

Writers are thieves, We steal stories. We steal names. We steal scenes. We observe the world and we take what we need and modify it.

as they watched the people. After he left, they changed and jumped in the water for a lazy afternoon

She appeared to be about fifty years old, with long stringy gray hair, and lots of wrinkles. In

He drove through the quiet village of Antioch without seeing another human

took out a notepad, and seemed ready to pounce on everything laid on the table. Half an hour later

After hanging around for three days, David could tell that the ADG team was not pleased with their testing.

What his parents needed was another kid or two, somebody else around the house to observe and analyze.