Quotes About Observation

You can watch the hour hand, Mimi finds, hold your eyes on it all around the circle of the clock, and never once see it move.

We scientists are taught never to look for ourselves in other species. So we make sure nothing looks like us!

Scopophobia hits them all—fear of seeing and being seen. A dog will bite if you stare at it too hard. People will shoot you.

The understory fills up with tracks like longhand accusations scribbled on the snow.

Dennis Ward, drops by with little gifts, when he's on site. Wasps' nests. Insect galls. Pretty stones polished by the creeks. Their standing arrangement reminds

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to notice.

And there's only the narrowest window of time in which to really see them, before these things that never were turn into things that have always been.

They can't believe a kid worked for months on an original idea, for no reason at all except the pleasure of looking until you see something.

Els puts his eye to a burst of stars. They cluster, a blue star nursery, spraying out new worlds. He feels like he did two years ago, when he first looked at a glowing stain of cells under the 1,000x objective and realized that life happens elsewhere, on scales that have nothing to do with him.

Easy Tree IDs.

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to look at.

The things she catches Doug-firs doing, over the course of these years, fill her with joy. When the lateral roots of two Douglas-firs run into each other

The Golden Guide to Pond Life, The Golden Guide to Stars, to Rocks and Minerals, to Reptiles and Amphibians: humans are almost beside the point.

Ese es el problema de la gente, la raíz de todo. La vida pasa a su lado desapercibida. Aquí mismo, muy cerca de ellos. En la creación del suelo. En el ciclo del agua. En el intercambio de nutrientes. En la formación del clima. En la construcción de la atmósfera. En la alimentación, curación y refugio de más tipos de criaturas de las que son capaces de contar.

Is the house on fire?" A shrug. A sideways pull of the lips. "Yes." "And you want to observe the handful of people who're screaming, Put it out, when everyone else is happy watching things burn.

Sih Hsuin gasps. "Look the color!" The color of greed, envy, freshness, growth, innocence. Green, green, green, green, and green.

You have a right to be present. A right to attend. A right to be astonished.

He decides, for whatever years are left to him, to capture the tree and see what the thing looks like, sped up to the rate of human desire.

Kids in my class think a black walnut looks just like a white ash. Are they blind?" "Plant-blind. Adam's curse. We only see things that look like us. Sad story, ain't it, kiddo?

She goes on staring at the city, waiting for the city to stare back.

As always in biology, the problem was to know what you were looking at.

I find it fascinating that this bottle is so cosmopolitan, a true multicultural brew, but it is so quiet about it.

Bohr had learned to be alert for bright students who were not afraid to argue.

I wouldn't turn away . . . but having made all those calculations, I thought the blast might be rather bigger than expected. So I put on some suntan lotion."2421 Teller passed the lotion around and the strange prophylaxis disturbed one observer: "It was an eerie sight to see a number of our highest-ranking scientists seriously rubbing sunburn lotion on their faces and hands in the pitch-blackness of the night, twenty miles from the expected flash.