Quotes about Observation

We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, [...] compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?

Let them wander and scrutinize the outlandish Australians. I have more of God, they more of the road.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only. How retired the otter manages to live here! He grows to be four feet long, as big as a small boy, perhaps without any human being getting a glimpse of him. I

Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.