Quotes About Observation

He was with a woman in a thousand-dollar dress, and between them they acted out all kinds of dissatisfied body language, telegraphing it, semaphoring it, huffing and puffing, getting more and more exaggerated, until even the doorman noticed.

Thomas Brant watched them go. He used his cell phone and called his boss, a man named Curtis Mauney.

The cell was very dark. I could just about see a bunk bed, a sink and a john.

I knew you liked him, Henry said. Ever since he tied your tie.

It is a funny thing but you can actually see improved mental health in the eyes

Whatever is happening on very small scales near the horizon of the black hole will be enlarged by the effect whereby the wavelengths of light are stretched as the light climbs up to us. This means that jf we can observe light coming from very close to the horizon of a black hole, we may be able to see the quantum structure of space itself.

At first I thought common nouns were hardest hit, coffee and doorway and so on, but it soon became clear that the missing were mostly adjectives.

A cowboy doesn't ask for much, that's my observation. A flashy ride, a pretty girl, momentary glory...

A veteran bystander to hard moments, I knew they went by quicker when you were unconscious.

No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.

I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return.

Parades always made me cringe—the sight of so many people lockstepping along, chests out, elbows pumping, seemed to denote an unearned pride or a humiliating need for attention. I have generally found something else to do, if any parades were nearby.

And why is it that so many years later it is so easy to distinguish the bullies from their prey? Adult bodies surrounding the children of long ago. The years have changed nothing.

It was at this point, visualizing too vividly another Mr. Kaplan in the class, that anxious little lines had crept around Mr. Parkhill´s eyes.

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two

A pygmy upon a gyants shoulder may see farther than the [giant] himself.

When a teacher initially believes that one student is smarter than another, he selectively focuses on evidence that tends to confirm the hypothesis.

Just as, looking at a Rorschach blot, you might see Madonna and I, a duck-billed platypus, the data we encounter in business, law, medicine, sports, the media, or your child's third-grade report card can be read in many ways. Yet interpreting the role of chance in an event is not like intepreting a Rorschach blot; there are right ways and wrong ways to do it.

As Lerner had predicted, the observers had a need to understand the situation in terms of cause and effect.

We cannot know whether our single observation represents the mean or an outlier, an event to bet on or a rare happening that is not likely to be reproduced.

Our assessment of the world would be quite different if all our judgments could be insulated from expectation and based only on relevant data.

According to the laws of chance, if you look around enough, you are bound to find something interesting.

Our assessment of the world would be quite different if all our judgments could be insulated from expectation and based only on relevant data.           A