Quotes About Observation

Il lavoro è pesante, ma stare lì a far niente guardando qualcuno che lavora è ancora più pesante, soprattutto se è vecchio

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

A good scientist," Gideon explained, "modifies his operational hypotheses to accord with fresh data.

gray-clad knees that hadn't come within ten inches of the soil. "Shall we have a look at the remains?" he said. "Perhaps we'd better establish at once that we're not dealing with a polydactylous pig." "We're not," Gideon said. "I can see that from here.

People put their minds to ruling over animals, not studying them. If you'll study animals and their habits, you'll do a much better job of dealing with them." Jeremy

Let the Rabbit see the warren

Observe the world around you - everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

He waited, the trail of his words slowly fading away into the rocks and grass and dirt and trees all around them. Nothing

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. ...if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam

Elkins sat and watched her go down the hall. He had always loved red hair. His first love, a girl in his third grade class, had red hair. And he had always liked white shorts on a shapely woman.

Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.

He invited me to a world that wasn't secret, but it was well hidden. You needed a guide. You had to know what to look for, but also how to look. You had to exert yourself to see this world." p 224

The voyage of discovery is not about new lands, but having new eyes.

By the time they return to the lodge in the late afternoon, they've seen so many white men—sa'ippus—and even white women, that Baby Mol no longer wants to touch them to see if the color comes off.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. —WILL ROGERS

Just this morning, I saw seven cardinals brash and bold as sin in a leafless tree. I let them be for a long while before I shook the air and screwed it all up just by being alive too.

Between the wrinkles of age and her features which indicated a number of years resided a beauty that was touching and awakened trust. Since by now I had observed many faces quite closely in order to sketch them, I fully realized that it was more than mere beauty, it was the soul which shone through so kindly and self-contained, which had such a striking effect on whoever came into contact with her.

While they were speaking of - in their opinion - great things, around about them only little things - also in their opinion - were happening: everywhere the bushes were turning green, the brooding earth was germinating and beginning to play with her first little Spring creatures, as one might with jewels.

And I'd noticed her eyes, the lightest blue, and alive, moving here and there and then staring straight on. And now there's darkness under her eyes like she hasn't slept well for too many days, almost like someone punched her just hard enough to leave a little black, a quarter-moon smudge under each eye.

She emoted more by blinking than I did in the entirety of my sixth-grade class play

Lowell's observations of Martian canals had become a joke in the scientific community.25 In the early 1950s, the possibility of life and intelligence in the universe remained a question that few scientists were seriously considering.

There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.

I hadn't expected much from the place, but I hadn't realized how ugly it would be, either. We