There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.

I was beginning to think that Simon just had a bad case of OCD, ADD, and PMS. With a little BS and OMG mixed in.

Look up at the moon; don’t think about yourself.

Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.

We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us

[D]avid began to argue, with the whining intonations of German astonishment, […] that everyone did it.

If a person is in the habit of talking bad about others while around you, that person is more than likely talking bad about you while around others.Likewise, if a person is in the habit...

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is...

If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. There’s a quote there about how philosophers say a great deal about...

The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two...

Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the planting of seeds that have produced new forms of truth, morality and meaning...

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough...

The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You’re the corpse in an English...

His fingers are too long and when he talks he uses them to point out moments in his sentences. When he does, as the tips of his spindly fingers touch the words his mouth forms,...

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn’t sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

Our observer is not affected by emotional ups and downs, our personal life dramas, or by the events of the external world. It is our observer, at the core of our being, that teaches us...

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception…you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years...

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above...

I wanted to observe how a genuine people person, who happens to also be a salesman, handles himself in the presence of a stranger. And few people are stranger than me, so I was paying...

..he went to the kitchen to get a banana; after each mouthful he pulled back a fraction the four or five strips of striped skin, faded petals, which covered his fist as it clenched the...

Walk slowly through the world and pay attention

Look around you…Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what’s happening in the wide world.

What we beileve is what we see.

Observation is a dying art.

There is no greater path than the act of listening, because the observer who listens can begin to see themselves as a part of one expression of purpose and beingness.

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous...

Sometimes the best discoveries are the result of simple observations

When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory of feelings and musings from which they can choose and infuse...

And he wondered, suddenly, what sort of divide it created between them, that he knew pieces of her that she had never shared with him – facts and stories and moments and memories to which...

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The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture.