Quotes About Observation

I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

In the end, though, science is what matters; scientists not a bit.

It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

Einstein wrote, "Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

To the naked eye, the Milky Way looks like a haze of light, but turn your binoculars or telescope on it and wow! – you can see that it's full of stars. The light you see is the light from billions of stars, too far away for your eyes to make them out individually, but so abundant that you can still see their combined light.

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?

When people are being observed, they want to look good and perform well.

imagine a line drawn through the main line of action—be it a moving car, a football field, or the eye line of a conversation.

Everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

Eventually, I decided that if he opened his eyes again and saw me there, it'd be uncomfortable for both of us, and Barlen preserve me from ever being uncomfortable.

Her face twisted up, and it reminded me of Loiosh once when I'd asked him to explain how he flew.

I'm generalizing from one example, here, but everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

I've heard it said: 'By his home you shall know him'; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence.

Thoughts are like lenses through which we look at our world.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment. -T. H. White

Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much that we say and do.

Don't worry. I am like most people. I can keep my eyes and still see nothing.

It' s easy to weep when staying far away, doing nothing.

What I lack is proof to the contrary, sir. I ain't seen it yet, in all my years. What do you think makes criminals in the first place?' 'Stupidity and greed.' 'Besides those? I'll tell you. It's looking around, real carefully. It's seeing what's really there, and who wins every time, and it's deciding that despair tastes like shit. It's deciding to do whatever it takes to sneak through, to win what you can for yourself.

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.