“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.”— Edouard Manet, goodreads.com
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or…”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.”— Ivan Pavlov, faculty.frostburg.edu
“That’s why I’m talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“That’s why I’m talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I think that part of [less self judgment] is observing oneself more impersonally.”— Ram Dass, twitter.com
“We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”— John Irving, amazon.com
“The things we see with the aid of a microscope, for example, are utterly alien, but because they are perceived in a state within which most of us exist most of the time, we can validate them consensually. In the case of a microscope, however, we are dealing with an extension of our senses via hardwa…”— Rick Strassman,