Quotes About Observation

He was smiling at the blimp, happier than Cirocco had ever seen him.

Looking around me, I saw that all my colleagues were busy at the same task. Eyes were rolled up, mouths hung open, here and there a finger twitched. It had to be either a day trip from the Catatonic Academy, or the modern press at work.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

One of my more sharp-tongued respondents, dryly observed, when asked if nationalization of railroads was being considered, "Yes sure its being considered. There's hardly a bad idea that isn't being considered. If you think of a bad idea that isn't being considered, call me up collect. I'd like to hear about it. - pg 129

Step down, pilgrim. Take a look

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.

Conciencia implica adquirir un conocimiento de algo a través de la reflexión, de la observación o de la interpretación de lo que uno ve, oye, siente, etcétera».

Every moment has a lesson for you to learn. Learn to listen.

If it dies, it's biology; if it blows up, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics!" As quoted from grafitti on a bathroom wall.

he soon formed this object into the hero of a romance, and determined to observe the offspring of his fancy, rather than the person before him.

He looked at them curiously, as if he had not seen them before, and felt very distant from them and very close to them.

Stoner saw them through a haze, as if he were an audience.

The people moved sluggishly through the warmth, and he moved with them, conscious of his height among the seated figures, nodding to the faces he now recognized.

its flatness, and its yellow-greenness, its high walls of mountain wooded with the deep green of pine in which ran the flaming red-gold of turning aspen, its jutting rock and hillock, all roofed with the intense blue of the airless sky—it seemed to him that the contours of the place flowed beneath his eyes, that his very gaze shaped what he saw, and in turn gave his own existence form and place.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

There they sit, with everyone thinking no more of them than they might of a pretty odd lot of cabbages, yet half the time they're pattering and clattering away at one another. Why? What is it they patter about? That's what I want to know.' I

Far away in South Kensington Mrs

She could not go on a bus without having an adventure, usually brought about by not minding her own business, and there was always some curious incident to relate to Vinny when he returned home in the evening.

It embarrasses him when I try to overhear conversations in restaurants, or sit and stare with my mouth open in the train, and what good does it do, since other people's lives remain an illusion? You may catch at their clothes and are sometimes left with shreds of them in your hands, but the people themselves are gone and then what little treasure and brightness you may bring home to yourself… changes at once to darkness, is absorbed by your own shadow.

It embarrasses him when I try to overhear conversations in restaurants, or sit and stare with my mouth open in the train, and what good does it do, since other people's lives remain an illusion? You may catch at their clothes and are sometimes left with shreds of them in your hands, but the people themselves are gone and then when little treasure and brightness you may bring home to yourself… changes at once to darkness, is absorbed by your own shadow.

Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Io sono tutta presa dalla curiosità per questo futuro incerto, dalla sensazione di essere ormai libera dagli ostacoli degli uomini; tutta presa dalla gioia di sentire che ciascun giorno, d'ora in poi, sarà nuovo, e che nessuno di essi sarà uguale all'altro; tutta presa dalla decisione di osservare, d'ora in poi, una sola regola: quella di camminare diritto davanti a me.

At that moment, Irish realized the man was Nathan Harris, the guy they'd seen in the hardware store. The one who'd had an issue with Randy having it all.