429 Quotes About Observation

Wizards had always known that the act of observation changed the thing that was observed, and sometimes forgot that it also changed the observer too.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.

you never will love art well, till you love what she mirrors better

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

If you observe nature daily, it brings harmony with you and God.

We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it.

Când analizăm mai atent felul în care ne facem observațiile și ne construim concepte despre ceea ce ne înconjoară, ajugem să ne întrebăm dacă avem motive întemeiate să credem că există o realitate obiectivă.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

the past has no existence except as it is recorded in the present. (...) we would seem forced to say that no phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. The universe does not 'exist, out there' independent of all acts of observation. Instead, it is in some strange sense a participatory universe