I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into… — Bernie Krause Copy Share Image
Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building… — Mark Steel Copy Share Image
Each of us plays four roles in relation to the brain. We lead, we inspire, we invent, and we use it. Most… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The issue of gay marriage has reached the Supreme Court and observers are analyzing every detail to predict how each justice will… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section,… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image