Quotes About Observation

Do you know of the uncertainty principle, Marjorie?" "I am educated," she snorted, very much annoyed with him. "Then you know that with very small things, we cannot both know where they are and what they are doing. The act of observing them always changes what they are doing. Perhaps God does not look at us individually because to do so would interrupt our work, interfere with our free will….

You have to notice people to be that sure about them.

Dzilobommo considera el efecto de su comida en los comensales como un pintor considera el efecto de su cuadro sobre un observador.

Here is my lens. You know my methods.

Seymour looked around the Tucson McDonald's. There were white people and Mavajos; there were people who preferred their Quarter Pounders with cheese and those who didn't care for cheese at all; and there were those who desperately wish that McDonald's would introduce onion rings to its menu.

Am I defined by what I've seen, or do I define the world by what I've witnessed? O, what beautiful or terrible thing waits around the next corner? Who isn't in love with this mystery?

I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)

I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

Kitten, when did you get so tall? (Ravyn) I grew while you were in the bathroom. (Erika)

He took one look at me and said, 'Damn, you cleaned up better than I thought you would.' (Grace) I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)

As she entered the main room, Syn turned around in his chair and almost fell out of it as he scanned her body. He cleared his throat and cut an appreciative look to Nykyrian.) Dayum…woman be hot. (Syn)

Good tuna-fish sandwiches; he's the tallest man I've ever seen! (Pam)

I'm not ogling him for myself. I'm ogling him for you. It was, after all, your sex life we were discussing. (Selena) Well, my sex life is just hunky-dory, and not the business of the people in this restaurant. (Grace)

I know it's a bit nosy– (Susan) A reporter being nosy? Damn, there's something you never see. (Ravyn)

They're ogling you, dude. Talking about your assets and the fact that you're nauseatingly ripped, which I would have been had I not bit the dust at seventeen. I'm forever trapped in my tall, gangly phase. (Jesse)

What are you doing here snooping around, Tory? (Medea) I didn't think I was snooping. It didn't feel like a snoop. I have snooped before and can honestly say this isn't it. (Tory)

Depends. (Adron) On? (Livia) Whether or not they're plotting against you. Taryn's like a head injury. It's only funny when it happens to someone else. And Tiernan…I think there's now a hurricane on Chrinon VI named after him. (Adron)

Then get your butt out there and watch them. (Remi) Nice attitude, Rem. Really, you should see about suing whatever asshole sold it to you. (Aimee)

Good tuna fish sandwiches; he's the tallest man I've ever seen. -Pam

He's here. We can smell it. (Arcadian Sentinel) You need to get your head out of your sphincter and stop smelling your own underwear cause the only jackals here, buddy, are you. (Aimee)

What is that?" – Abigail "Wasps…A shitload of them." – Sasha

People see their own sins in others.

There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.