Quotes about Observation

Think of it this way: no scientist has ever seen an electron, but all scientists agree that electrons exist. No physicist has ever seen a quark, but all physicists believe that quarks are real. Why? Because when they look into their microscopes, they see things happening that could only happen if quarks and electrons existed. I believe in the reality of God the way scientists believe in the reality of electrons. I see things happening that would not happen unless there is a God.

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirp by the wall, and like a blue thread a long, thin dragonfly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.

By the way, is there any difference between 'grey' and 'gray'? I believe there is, but I don't know what it is. In one place in the poem Smithers suggests 'gray'. In others he leaves 'grey'. Perhaps he is seeing red. I believe they are sympathetic colours in spectroscope investigations.

All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to

People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.

I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.

Seja mais sábio do que os outros se puder, mas não avise a ninguém.

Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious.

The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.