Quotes About Observation

Birinin verdiÄŸi tavsiyenin kalitesini anlamak için o kiÅŸinin yaÅŸam?na bakmak gerekir.

Miró fijamente los instrumentos con el aire de quien intentara pasar de memoria de la escala Fahrenheit a la centígrada mientras la casa está en llamas.

A scientist must be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

Arthur didn't notice that the men were running from the bulldozers; he didn't notice that Mr Prosser was staring hectically into the sky. What Mr Prosser had noticed was that huge yellow somethings were screaming through the cluds, impossibly huge somethings.

It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day,' or 'You're very tall,' or 'So this is it, we're going to die.' His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably seized up.

How can you tell there's anything out there?' said the man politely. 'The door's closed.

We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

The human race is currently sitting round a rock on the other side of this hill making documentaries about themselves.

went back on to the bridge to watch over the tiny flashing lights and figures that charted the ship's progress through the void.

The mice will see you now," he said.

After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall,or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?

His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this—"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

Buz dolab?na adeta dans ederek gitti, içindeki aç?s?ndan en az tüylü üç ÅŸeyi buldu ve onlar? bir tabaÄŸa koyarak iki dakika boyunca dikkatle izledi. Bu süre içinde hareket etmek için herhangi bir giriÅŸimde bulunmad?klar?ndan dolay? onlar? kahvalt? oalrak adland?rd? ve yedi.

At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

Anyone who even notices, let alone calls attention to the curious, but utterly coincidental and meaningless fact that every world on which the Guide has ever set up an accounting department has shortly afterward perished in warfare or some natural disaster, is liable to get sued to smithereens.

Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in restaurants.

Bir ÅŸeyi görmen onun orada olduÄŸu anlam?na gelmez. Ayn? ÅŸekilde bir ÅŸeyi görmemen de onun orada olmad??? anlam?na gelmez. Her ÅŸey alg?lar?n?n senin dikkatini nereye yönelttiÄŸine baÄŸl?d?r.

Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.