Observation – Page 2

This, then, is what

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose. Eugen Herrigel

I’m not very eloquent

I’m not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don’t mean that they are related arts, because they’re not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of … Read more

Seeing artistically does not

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation. Eugene Delacroix

I want the brain

I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark. Euan Uglow

But, after all, the

But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better. Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

If you’ve got somebody’s

If you’ve got somebody’s aspects in your experience that you don’t like, there’s only one reason they’re there. You keep evoking them with your attention to them. Without knowing about Law of Attraction, you have – through your old habit of observation – achieved vibrational harmony with the parts of them that you do not … Read more

Our mind, by virtue

Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning. Erwin Schrodinger

I belong to those

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them. Erwin Schrodinger

A careful analysis of

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. Erwin Schrodinger

The concept of intuition

The concept of intuition is more often used in philosophical theorizing than is the concept of observation in scientific theorizing (proportionately). One reason is that there is (proportionately) more ostensible conflict of philosophical intuitions than there is ostensible conflict of scientific observations. So much for the use of a concept of intuition in philosophical theorizing. … Read more