Quotes About Observation

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!

How are your dead bones doing today?" "They've been deader." "Good, good, good. That's good. Have a seat on that ice-cold stool and we'll look you over, okay?

Observation had always meant more to me than interaction...My sole gift or talent, I believe now, was that places could impress themselves upon me, and I could become part of them with ease.

There's nothing to this world,' he said, 'but what our senses tell us about it, and all I can do is the best I can on that information.

Was he the woman with no clue where the ant was or the ant, unaware it was on the woman?

Observation had always meant more to me than interaction.

He wanted to stay there, at the bar, around people but not involved with them.

Sometimes you get a sense of when the truth of things will not be revealed by microscopes.

Looking for hidden meaning in these papers was the same as looking for hidden meaning in the natural world around us. If it existed, it could be activated only by the eye of the beholder.

I do not know how this thorn got here or from how far away it came, but by luck or fate or design at some point it found the lighthouse keeper and did not let him go. How long he had as it remade him, repurposed him, is a mystery. There was no one to observe, to bear witness—until thirty years later a biologist catches a glimpse of him and speculates on what he might have become. Catalyst. Spark. Engine.

the longer I looked the more certain I became that these figures were real and living, though perhaps not according to the standards that the camera and the biologist would insist upon.

Can you really imagine what it was like in those first moments, peering down into that dark space, and seeing that? Perhaps you can. Perhaps you're staring at it right now.

But you're curious, too," she said. "Why do you say that?" "You guard the light. And light sees everything.

There might be life, right under our noses. But there's always been life right under our noses – we're just too blind to see it. These fucking questions – they don't matter.

He drove past a couple of communal basketball hoops and some black and Latino kids on bicycles, who stopped and stared until he was gone. School had been out for a couple of weeks.

How can you tell if a streak of light across the sky is sincere?

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants...

Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in beauty is inexhaustible. No matter how long beautiful things endure, they cannot out-endure our longing for them.

She had stood by and said nothing, but Wanda had been nice to her anyway.

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Miró a las gentes agrupadas a su

Los veíamos al pasar, haciendo como si no los viéramos, con