#observe

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#get #knowledge #observer #preferably #provides

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future. ↗

— Alison Lurie

#europe #future #living #must #observe

If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#comfortable #feel #hang #i #i feel

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #america #asia #ask #britain

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#fool #i #observed #seem #should

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#create #education #giving #means #observation

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#first #first thing #geologists #go #make

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#alternatives #any #facts #fit #itself

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#avoid #confidence #desire #experimental #goes

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it. ↗

— Liz Phair

#art #artist #become #digest #know