Quotes About Observation

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him.

The idea that "there's something we don't know," given a certain wave function, is an outdated relic of our intuitive insistence that what we observe is what really exists. Quantum mechanics teaches us otherwise.

The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a simple motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is.

The real universe is nothing like that. It's more like an annoying child who likes to approach people and say, "I know what's going to happen to you next!" Then, when you ask what will happen, the child says, "I can't tell you." And after it happens, they say, "See? I knew that was going to happen!" That's the universe for you.

treat measurements as fundamental, wave functions collapse when they are observed, don't ask questions about what's going on behind the scenes

According to quantum mechanics, what we can observe about the world is only a tiny subset of what actually exists.

A police officer pulls over Werner Heisenberg for speeding. "Do you know how fast you were going?" asks the cop. "No," Heisenberg replies. "But I know exactly where I am." I think we can all agree that physics jokes are the funniest jokes there are.

The right answer, whatever it may turn out to be, will more likely be phrased in terms of wave functions, Schrödinger's equation, and Hilbert spaces.

Never interrupt someone who is making a mistake.

The BBC's candid observations and unfortunate experiences in Pyongyang this week spoke to the extreme level of control under which people there are forced to live. I'm not optimistic."

Curiosity is a lens through which you view everything around you. Without it, there are no adventures to be had. With it, there are enough for a million lifetimes.

Casuslarla ilgileniyorsun, öyle deÄŸil mi Bob?" "Bazen evet. Gözlerle. ÇoÄŸunlukla kad?nlar?n gözleriyle. Onlar? birer casuslara benzetiyorum." "Ne aç?dan, Bob?" diye sorar Spurley. "Baz?s? bizi görür, baz?s? görmez. Ama yapt???m?z yanl??lar hiçbirinin gözünden kaçmaz. Sence de öyle deÄŸil mi?

25. Flowering trees The blossom of the pear tree is the most prosaic, vulgar thing in the world. The less one sees this particular blossom the better...

Ginzo inclined his head and, without uttering a single word, returned to his room in the main house. For a while he just stood there thinking, but eventually he uttered a single sentence: "That man's lying." With that, he opened his suitcase and took out a blank telegram. After a few moments, he began to write. KATSUKO DEAD. SEND KINDAICHI. He addressed it to his own wife, then set out for the K—town post office.

Hon kunde aldrig hänge sig helt åt något. Om hon älskade, ja, vad hon än gjorde, stod liksom ena hälften av hennes jag och såg på med ett kallt hånlöje.

It was strange having so much knowledge at once and having so little power to direct her own fate. But she listened, she watched, and she learned.

When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

Espiar a otro es enrarecerlo. Y cuanto más intrascendente es el registro de sus acciones, más raro resulta.

En la mesa vecina a la mía se había instalado una familia tipo (padre, madre, hijo, hija) argentina (el señor mirando el Rodin, la señora diciéndole algo en voz baja, la hija tratando de escuchar lo que decía la madre, y el hijo con cara de culo).

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

Oh, a pipe smoker," said Henry. "Well, that narrows it down." "Sometimes," said Doyle, "there is nothing so significant as a trifle.