Quotes About Observation

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . .

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

and so I opened my eyes and I opened my mind and I saw something I never would have noticed on a bicycle unless I was going very, very fast down a very long hill. Because of the speed of the bus and how I was exerting no effort, the telephone wires on the side of the road, sagging between poles, went up and down with the same rhythm as my heartbeat.

Was this what it meant to have the eye? To be able to discern a distinction in quality so subtle as to be invisible to the man on the street?

Francis ascended the stairs without slowing, calling for Marcus and Andrea before he'd reached the top. Then he was gone. If he'd clocked Jeff at all, it was only to verify that someone was behind the desk.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.

An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist—that's what I keep repeating and insisting upon. Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. An artist observes, selects, guesses and synthesizes.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all." - Marie Antoinette

You didn't see us," she said to Anna... "I was... lost in thought," Anna replied. "What were you thinking about?" "You," Anna said. "Isn't that strange? I was thinking of you two so hard that I didn't see you.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

shouldn't do anything suspicious, like trying to map out the entire city in the first week.

El ojo que ves no es ojo porque tú lo veas, es ojo porque te ve.

The eye you see is not an eye because you see it; it is an eye because it sees you.

PROVERBIOS Y CANTARES XXVI Poned sobre los campos un carbonero, un sabio y un poeta. Veréis cómo el poeta admira y calla, el sabio mira y piensa... Seguramente, el carbonero busca las moras o las setas. LlevadIos al teatro y sólo el carbonero no bosteza. Quien prefiere lo vivo a lo pintado es el hombre que piensa, canta o sueña. El carbonero tiene llena de fantasías la cabeza.

Si hay ciclista, no monta la bicicleta como si fuera una de esas maquinas brutales de los gimnasio, sino que se pasea demoradamente en ella, inclinado sobre el manillar, mirando a su alrededor, acompasado su pedaleo al ritmo apaciguado de las cosas.

A veces uno no se da cuenta de las cosas más obvias si alguien no le llama la atención sobre ellas.

Only Judith's presence expanded his capacity for seeing, opened his eyes to things he wouldn't have noticed without her.

Observed by others, he was afraid they might discover his inner lack of substance, detect his discomfort behind his smile or the fear that had gradually become his natural state.

En casa uno facilmente puede sentirse encerrado, agobiado por la falta de horizonte, por la excesiva familiaridad de las cosas. En el cafe se es a la vez sedentario y transeunte, y si uno tiene la suerte de ocupar una mesa junto al ventanal, la situacion es admirable, perfecta: uno es la estampa involuntaria del desconocido que mira la calle tras los cristales del cafe, y esa figura, ese anonimato, le concede una vision alejada y un poco novelesca de si mismo.

En la memoria y en los ojos de alguien están ahora mismo las imágenes indelebles del crimen, unos ojos que en este mismo instante miran algún lugar de la ciudad, normales, serenos, tal vez, como los ojos de cualquiera.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

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