Quotes About Observation

Keeping a journal: The short entries are often as dry as instant tea. Writing them down is like pouring hot water over them to release their aroma.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

Ci si innamora così, cercando nella persona amata il punto a nessuno rivelato, che è dato in dono solo a chi scruta, ascolta con amore. Ci si innamora da vicino, ma non troppo, ci si innamora da un angolo acuto un poco in disparte in una stanza, presso una tavolata, seduto su un gradino mentre gli altri ballano

Fortuna, ma ci sono fortune che vanno in braccio al primo che incontrano, fortune puttane che piantano subito e vanno col prossimo e invece ci sono fortune sagge che spiano una persona e la collaudano lentamente

Kegiatan fisik dalam menulis fiksi bertolak belakang dengan hasil yang didapat. Kegiatan tersebut adalah duduk tegang dan jenuh sepanjang siang atau malam di depan meja dan mesin ketik, pada saat aku ingin berdiri dan pergi ke suatu tempat untuk melihat sesuatu yang aku yakini lebih menarik dibanding apa yang sedang aku kerjakan.

The act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared at in a class apart. One does not talk to a monkey in a zoo, or to a freak in a sideshow— one only stares.

Despite Riley's efforts to protect his privacy on the ground, the Court said that he had no reasonable expectation of privacy from observation by a helicopter or a low-flying airplane.18

subsequent in-court identification by that witness also is inadmissible unless the government can demonstrate with clear and convincing evidence that the in-court identification was based on the observations of the accused independent of the prior lineup identification.

What had Wardlow done to create "reasonable suspicion"? He was in what the Court said was "an area known for heavy narcotics trafficking."38 That is another way of saying, it was a predominantly Black neighborhood. And he walked the other direction after seeing police cars.

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.

A permanent state is reached, in which no observable events occur. The physicist calls this the state of thermodynamical equilibrium, or of 'maximum entropy'. Practically, a state of this kind is usually reached very rapidly. Theoretically, it is very often not yet an absolute equilibrium, not yet the true maximum of entropy. But then the final approach to equilibrium is very slow. It could take anything between hours, years, centuries,

disorderly experience we should have if our senses were susceptible to the impact of a few molecules only.

There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks

MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

THE STRIKING CONTRAST

The task is ... not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.

But human faces are so interesting," said I. "Yes, to be sure. But when you are looking at one face, you are not looking at another. You are privileging that face. You are deciding who is worthy of observation and who is not. You are choosing who is worth preserving.

Be faithful to what you see, Washington, and not to what you are supposed to see.

Erasmus and I used to watch her as she sat for her Italian lessons in the afternoon. She was the most beautiful creature we knew. You were children, his father said. You knew nothing of beauty. Children know everything about beauty, Titch countered softly. It is adults who have forgotten.

I stood out, and felt the constant touch of others' eyes.

You cannot be other than selfish, for you cannot observe, perceive, or be other than from your perspective of self. All points of Consciousness, even one-celled organisms, perceive. And they do so from the ever-changing selfish perspective that they currently hold.