Quotes About Observation

Mr Mudd, you see but you do not observe.

and Vivian eyed something no one else could see. Then

When the window turned dark, it was presumably night; when it grew blue again, I guessed that morning had come.

Right there! See the blue on its head? See the long tail?" "Oh, there he is," I said, just to bring this little farce to an end. I couldn't see the bird, and I knew I wasn't going to see the bird, and I was rapidly tiring of the whole enterprise. "Beautiful, isn't he?" "Gorgeous," I agreed. "I'd have hated to miss him.

You see one, you've seen 'em both. And here I was, Munro Leaf's watchbird. Here is a watchbird watching two lesbians. Here is a watchbird watching YOU.

My friends must all have known all along. Yet nobody breathed a word. But of course, the truth is that nobody ever does breathe a word, nobody interferes, nobody whispers while the acrobat is on the tight-rope; they just sit and watch the spectacle, waiting only to be wise after the event.

He sits all day on the terrace of the Brokers' Club watching women pass, with the restless eye of someone endlessly shuffling through an old soiled pack of cards.

In India when I was a boy they had great big green lizards there, and if you shouted or shot them their tails would fall off. There was only one boy in the school who could catch lizards intact. No one knew quite how he did it. He had a special soft way of going up to them, and he'd bring them back with their tails on. That strikes me as the best analogy I can give you. To try and catch your poem without its tail falling off.

Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.