Quotes About Observation

Ein Buch ist ein Spiegel wenn ein Affe hineinsieht so kann kein Apostel heraus gucken.

En la naturaleza no hay palabras, solamente iniciales. Al releer las nuevas "palabras", descubrimos que no son sino iniciales de otras

Die Metapher ist weit klüger als ihr Verfasser, und so sind es viele Dinge. Alles hat seine Tiefen. Wer Augen hat, der sieht alles in allem

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.

Nuestros tiempos, donde los insectos coleccionan insectos y las mariposas hablan de mariposas.

Con demasiada frecuencia la "noble sencillez" en las obras de la naturaleza tiene su origen en la noble ignorancia de quien las contempla.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

The men crashed back through the store and Peter moved right to the racks of weapons. He pulled down a gorgeous high-powered rifle that was equipped with a sophisticated scope for sighting. "Ain't it a crime!" he ejaculated. "What?" Steve asked, confused by the man's sudden outburst. "The only person who could ever miss with this gun," Peter said, looking through the telescope, "is the sucker with bread enough to buy it.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror

Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways?

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

And he could glance at her continually as she bent over the fruit, while the level evening sunbeams stole through the thick apple-tree boughs and rested on her round cheek and neck as if they too were in love with her.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Economics has accurately been called the science of the single instance.

One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.

Se supone que el Demonio de Maxwell era un personaje muy hábil, capaz de observar cada molécula y cambiar a su antojo la dirección del movimiento de la misma.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.