'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals,… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
Sometimes in astronomy, a heavenly body has been virtually invisible until a single observer detects its presence and points it out to… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a… — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
In a surprising unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ruled the police cannot search what is on your phone without a warrant. Court… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Emotions like guilt and shame cut you off from web of existence and that causes inflammation in the body. I would recommend… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.” — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
