Quotes About Observation

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

I have not told half of what I saw.

When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.

I never really saw 'The Kids in the Hall' until after we started 'The State.'

Woman: Did you know that women are smarter than men? Man: No, I didn't. Woman: See what I mean?

Bee stings are very educational

Both of them often turned to gaze at Sabriel.

All this, combined with typical British reticence to discuss their relationship and its problems, led them to behave in such a repressed way to each other that everyone else around them knew immediately they were in love.

And your otter friend is eating by ... or in ... the pool. But it is as well that you should check. That is the mark of a leader.

difference between a dating couple and a married couple? Dating couples look at each other and talk. Married couples sit there and gaze around the restaurant. You'd think they went there to eat!

Do good—even in little things. God sees them all. — Jerry Hamilton —

moose was a moose. There

He widened the hole with his finger and looked inside.

It must have been a snapper

Kind of like a pear, he had thought, with a point on one end and a fat little body; a flying pear.

It was, all in all, a grand example of interspecies lack of cooperation and the further illustration that might makes right. I stayed in the rest area, in my car, for another half an hour, until everything had settled down, and saw who emerged as the victor. The bees kept the water fountain.

That simple. You lived or you died. And in between the two, if you kept your mind open and aware and listened and smelled and watched... In between you learned. from Northwind

Our inherited desire to explain what we see fuels two kinds of cognitive errors. First, we are too easily seduced by patterns and by the theories that explain them. Second, we latch onto data that support our theories and discount contradicting evidence. We believe stories simply because they are consistent with the patterns we observe and, once we have a story, we are reluctant to let it go.

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.

In the mountains it's cold. Always been cold, not just this year. Jagged scarps forever snowed in Woods in the dark ravines spitting mist. Grass is still sprouting at the end of June, Leaves begin to fall in early August. And here I am, high on mountains, Peering and peering, but I can't even see the sky.

We cannot say what reality is, only what it seems like to us.

The individual is not the sum of his common impressions but of his unusual ones.

Preguntó el señor Mifroid, mientras limpiaba meticulosamente los cristales de su binóculo, ya que el comisario era míope, como les suele ocurrir a los mejores ojos del mundo.

Most human beings I've met have a rather negative opinion of science. They think it is dull and abstruse, possibly even dangerous. But everyone, even on EARTH, is a scientist, really, whether he realizes it or not. Anyone who has ever watched and wondered how a bird flies, or a leaf unfurls, or concluded anything on the basis of his own observations, is a scientist. Science is a part of life.