Quotes About Observation

Q: What do you call an eternity? A: Four blondes at a four-way stop.

A policeman pulls a man over for speeding and asks him to get out of the car. After looking the man over he says, "Sir, I couldn't help but notice your eyes are bloodshot. Have you been drinking?" The man gets indignant and says, "Officer, I couldn't help but notice your eyes are glazed. Have you been eating donuts?

Q: Why did the blonde climb over the glass wall? A: To see what was on the other side.

If you think something is innovative, it just means you haven't been paying attention. attention. Scott Rogers

It must be so easy to judge the decisions of someone else when you sit back and do nothing.

Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little,

He installed a mirror outside his study window so he could see guests coming up the drive before they saw him, allowing him time to brace himself or to hide.

the ability to observe ourselves objectively and compassionately is the single most important skill to develop in walking the spiritual path." Starting

Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.

Always there is something of interest to be seen if one but knows where to look for it.

for who could be blind to the evidence of his eyes, the obviousness of that hall-watcher's hate? Whoever escaped kept a weather-eye open and moved away.

It doesn't include math or logic, nor does it address issues of judgment, such as aesthetics or morality. Science has a simple goal: to figure out what the world actually is. Not all the possible ways it could be, nor the particular way it should be. Just what it is. There's

There is a famous joke, attributed to Einstein: "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." I don't know whether Einstein actually ever said those words. But I do know that's not relativity.

Quantum reality is a wave function; classical positions and velocities are merely what we are able to observe when we probe that wave function.

Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand–born experimental physicist who was as responsible as anyone for discovering the structure of the atom, once remarked that "all of science is either physics or stamp collecting.

As a measurement apparatus interacts with a quantum system, the two become entangled with each other. There are no wave-function collapses or classical realms. The apparatus itself evolves into a superposition, entangled with the state of the thing being observed.

Space itself is not fundamental; it's just a useful way of talking from certain points of view.

Upon measurement, the wave function collapses. However spread out it may have been pre-measurement, afterward it is concentrated on the result we obtained.

Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.