Quotes About Observation

Los sonidos se han enroscado y han echado para atrás sus ojos de caracol

In essence, one becomes what one participates in. In other words, I am what I look at.

eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality—its inexpressibility.

A dog starv'd at his Master's Gate Predicts the ruin of the State.

Perhaps tiny signs reveal this sort of cosmic event to us, but we don't notice them either

all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it is automatic. Not only invisible to men, but also women, who no longer treat her as competition. It is a new and surprising sensation, how people's eyes just sort of float right over her face. They look straight through her, no doubt looking past her at ads and landscapes and schedules.

When you live in a place and a time in which certain laws are in effect, then you must observe those laws, but never forgetting that they are only partial systems, never absolute. For the truth is something else, and if a person is not prepared to come to know it, then it may seem frightening and terrible, and that person may curse the day he learned of it. But I do believe that everyone can tell what kind of person he truly is. It is just that deep down, he doesn't want to find out.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

The middle of the next century must be taken as the real dawn of modern science; for the year 1543 marks the publication of the life-work of Copernicus. Nicolas Copernik was his proper name. Copernicus

e.g. the sky looks the same at midnight on the 1st of October as it does at 10 p.m. on the 1st of November.

4. That if the earth moved, or even revolved on its own axis, a stone or other dropped body ought to be left far behind.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

was probably significant that he was physically short-sighted. He could not recognise people until almost upon them. Their faces were like so many buns. Good-natured buns, he would have said, but Harriet did not agree. She saw them in detail and did not like them any the better for it.

Ma non si impara a fare belle fotografie soltanto con una macchina fotografica. La capacità si acquisisce coltivando la propria sensibilità.

His own clothes were simple but always clean and neat. When some hippies argued that this was not "natural," Omori said nothing but pointed to a nearby cat, busy cleaning and smoothing its fur.

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

If they had been, explained Falk, they would have had to come up with a falsifiable hypothesis. For instance, if the hypothesis is that all tomatoes are red, you can disprove the hypothesis by finding a yellow tomato. "What I said in my paper," Falk told us, "that [the Hobbit] is not a microcephalic, can be falsified with one specimen from a proven microcephalic whose virtual endocast looks identical. And that is scientific.

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Law can change how people behave when others are watching that's all.

Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

I even watched in silence when my own wife was violated.

I also like to take my glasses off and look at people. The faces around me, all of them, seem kind and pretty and smiling. What's more, when my glasses are off, I don't ever think about arguing with anyone at all, nor do I feel the need to make snide remarks. All I do is just blankly stare in silence.