Quotes About Observation

Punctul final al c?l?toriei lor era un castel în apropierea c?rora se aflau ele?tee. Au ajuns la aceste ele?tee într-o minunat? dup?-amiaz? de var? târzie. Cerul era atât de albastru încât Gottfried nu s-a jenat s?-i spun? tat?lui: "Uite ce albastru e cerul aici".

My contention is that while progress in some of the great matters of human concern has been long proceeding in accordance with the law of a rapidly increasing geometric progression, progress in the other matters of no less importance has advanced only at the rate of an arithmetical progression or at best at the rate of some geometric progression of relatively slow growth. To see it and to understand it we have to pay the small price of a little observation and a little meditation.

What appeared to be a small cave had been sighted about 30 yards off to the left

Charles Darwin, on first seeing these waves breaking on Tierra del Fuego in 1833, wrote in his diary:

None of the dogs seemed to sense what was happening

But Worsley took his chronometer out to the edge of the floe and timed the interval between swells—eighteen seconds

I found Him in the shining of the stars,I mark'd Him in the flowering of His fields,But in His ways with men I find Him not.

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ring'd with the azure world he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

Everything of importance has already been seen by someone who did not discover it.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself

Impara tutto ciò che ti è possibile dagli errori degli altri. Non avrai tempo a sufficienza per farli tutti.

Both flame and spider enrich themselves by understanding the natures of their prey; and fly and moth return again and again until this is accomplished.

the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

By which I mean that he saw in commonplace events the movement of greater tides than others saw.

He understood now why the world was strange, why horses galloped furiously, and why trains whistled as they raced through stations.

He disliked them, not because they were his fellow-countrymen, but because they were noisy and obtrusive, obliterating with their big limbs and tweed clothing all the quieter tints of the day that brought him satisfaction and enabled him to melt into insignificance and forget that he was anybody.

It is, of course, extremely interesting to look back across the years questioningly, wonderingly, objectively, without detachments, though seeing "objectively" does not necessarily imply seeing truthfully.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo")

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

always looking off to the side. But that's good too. It's good, to be seen past, as if you're not the only one, as if everything isn't happening just to you. Because you're not. And it isn't.

And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see it?

He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was the most beautiful boy I'd ever seen in my life.