Quotes About Observation

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There are two kinds: an eye for details, which discovers new things, and a fixed look that follows only a ready-made plan and speeds it up for the moment.

We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree...

Wir sehen die Welt nicht wie ein Botaniker, der gleichzeitig Architekt, Arzt, Geologe und Kapitän ist. Das Kennen geschieht nicht so wie das Sehen, es verträgt sich nicht einmal allzugut damit, und es ist oft eine schlechtere Methode, um festzustellen, was es gibt.

A novel is a mirror that strolls along a highway. Now it reflects the blue of the skies, now the mud puddles underfoot.

If the sailor in his sling were to turn and look down on her, he'd know she was a whore by the tentacles.

Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix.

which no other failed applicant had even thought of trying to do, because most people don't regard seeing as a skill you can get better at. And when it came to

There are three kinds of people," he wrote later, "those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Nulle part autant qu'ici on ne constate aussi nettement l'étonnante différence qui peut exister entre les récits faits à la même heure d'un seul et même événe- ment par plusieurs observateurs.

I watched him wave from the back of his hired mare and clatter off down the silent streets of Hans Town in a westerly direction; and reflected that there are few sights so gratifying to a female eye, as a handsome man in a well-made coat and hat, astride a horse on a spring morning.

I looked my fill upon this corner of the sceptre'd isle; saw, as with the eye of Heaven, the flocks of sheep like clouds against the pasturage, the rapid gallop of a distant horse, the tumbled stones of ancient habitation.

I dropped back onto the sofa thinking of how I spent the past few weeks under the watchful eyes of the De Campo men. It never occurred to me that they were around for my protection. I just thought that they wanted to hang out.

Looking back over fifty years of science and environmental education, I find that the main thing I have taught is how to pay attention.

I can see down your shirt

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.