Quotes About Observation

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A wave of embarrassment washed over him, and he checked to see if any of his posters had noticed. They stayed put, emotionless and impartial.

We do not want to be like the scientist who takes his umbrella with him to go study the rain.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

Haven't you sometimes seen a cloud that looked like a centaur?Or a leopard perhaps? Or a wolf? Or a bull?

The trickiest thing is the nature of man, apparent in everything.

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

I was backing into the picture I wanted to see by noticing what wasn't in it. It was like trying to understand a photography by studying the negative. I found myself focusing not on what people remembered, focused on, and said, but on what they forgot, disregarded, and did not say. I was backing into the deep story, as I am calling it, and noticing what, in human consciousness, it crowded out.

Those who have spent time arguing instead of studying things as they are show all too clearly that they are incapable of seeing much at all.

theories have a part to play so long as what they indicate agrees with what is seen

The produce section of your local grocery store is a great place for experimenting. Have her feel the difference between a kiwi or a peach and a coconut or a pineapple. Let

Ein Rezensent kommt mir manchmal vor wie der Mann, der eine Wolke beobachtet und ihr übelnimmt, daß sie nicht die Gestalt des Kamels angenommen hat, das er jeden Tag im Spiegel sieht.

To be here or somewhere else, to live or not to live, to look out through a broken window or not to look.

We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, thyroid problem?

Het vel van de sardines is zo mooi, het is mooier dan het vel van de mens, maar hij moet toegeven dat hij nog nooit heeft gezien hoe menselijk vel eruitziet als je het bakt in een pan.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

The entire spread-out field comes through both slits and fills the region between source and screen, but...this field must deposit its quantum of energy all at once, in a single instant, because the field cannot carry some fraction of one quantum-it must always contain either exactly one or exactly zero quanta of energy. When the field deposits its quantum of energy on the viewing screen, the entire spread-out field must instantaneously lose this much energy.

Kids do say the darndest things

OSSERVAZIONE DI ZENONE L'altra coda va più veloce.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

You know my methods, Watson.

"… the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.""The dog did nothing in the nighttime.""That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

To Sherlock Holmes she [Irene Adler] is always the woman.