Observation Quotes - Page 9

• Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms

  Gregory Bateson

  Communication, Winning, Doe

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.201, University of Chicago Press

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• It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions.

  Isaac Newton

  Mean, Differences, Space

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

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• According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.

  Albert J. Nock

  Character, Pride, Animal

  "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.

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• If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without a common Power to keep them all in awe; we might as well suppose all mankind to do the same; and then there neither would be nor need to be any civil government or commonwealth at all, because there would be Peace without subjection.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Hombres, Derecho, Justicia

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Eye, Thinking, World

  "Aforismos sobre el hombre. Traducido del manuscrito original del reverendo John Caspar Lavater, ciudadano de Zuric ; [Una línea de Juvenal]" por Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Perfect

  David Hume (1793). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.31

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• Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.

  Peter Medawar

  Children, Discovery, Vision

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). "Inducción e intuición en el pensamiento científico".

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• A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.

  Virginia Satir

  Growing, Body, Conclusion

  Virginia Satir (1967). “Conjoint Family Therapy”

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• Mirad a Goethe, a Lamartine y a muchos otros. Para describir los sentimientos en este plano tan elevado, hay que renunciar al proceso de observación minuciosa e insignificante que es la perdición de los artistas de hoy en día.

  Paul Bourget

  Giving Up, Artist, Feelings

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• The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

  Raymond Williams

  Feelings, Gaps, Social

  Raymond Williams (2001). “The Long Revolution”, p.311, Broadview Press

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• Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.

  Dora Russell

  Arte, Niños, Media

  "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, ch. v, p. 235, 1927.

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• A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

  Ian Hacking

  Inconsistent, Generalization, Falsehood

  Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium - or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Light, Debate, Speed

  "The Physics of Star Trek". Book by Lawrence M. Krauss, 1995.

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• Cómo hacen su trabajo los científicos: y es un proceso, se trata de hacer preguntas, respetar la observación, respetar el experimento, tener explicaciones tentativas y luego ponerlas a prueba.... A veces hay un problema con la forma en que enseñamos ciencia en las escuelas. Porque a veces la enseñamos como si estuviera tallada en piedra.

  Paul Nurse

  Jobs, School, Asking Questions

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• Desde los tiempos de Sir Isaac Newton, los científicos han trabajado del mismo modo: Muestran un gran respeto por la experimentación y la observación, no seleccionan los datos, adoptan un enfoque escéptico de lo que hacen. Y luego los científicos trabajan juntos para llegar a un consenso sobre lo que se debe creer. Y eso genera un conocimiento muy fiable y ese conocimiento fiable impulsa la innovación.

  Paul Nurse

  Data, Innovation, Working Together

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• 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

  Mean, Mind, Measurement

  "Schrödinger: Life and Thought". Book by Walter Moore, 1989.

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• We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual inertia, the fashions of the moment, the weight of institutions, and authoritarianism are always to be feared. Heresies play an essential role by keeping our minds argumentative and alert.

  Hubert Reeves

  Fashion, Play, Intellectual

  "Atoms of Silence: an Exploration of Cosmic Evolution". Book by Hubert Reeves, 1984.

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• The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

  Barry Long

  Truth, Way, Findings

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

  Joe Haldeman

  Real, Believe, World

  Joe Haldeman (2008). “The Accidental Time Machine”, p.82, Penguin

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• If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.

  Gao Xingjian

  Writing, Reality, Self

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• With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Situation, Accurate, Qualifications

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.23

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• In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.

  Walter E. Williams

  Army, Law, Greed

  "Economics for the Citizen (Part 9)". capitalismmagazine.com. January 20, 2005.

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• Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning.

  Erik Naggum

  Teaching, Mind, Novices

  Re: Guide to Lisp, v1.20 (Usenet article), groups.google.com. August 28, 2002.

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• I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world - if it does, it is now or will eventually be wrong - but it can and should speak about the relevance and ranking of facts and observations.

  Erik Naggum

  Philosophy, Doe, World

  "Philosophy of Lisp programmers". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. June 22, 2002.

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• Es lo que hace consciente de las condiciones y leyes del observar lo que aplicado de esta manera se convierte en un tema por sí mismo. La actividad de la conciencia en función del modo de proceder de la propia obra, se convierte de este modo en objeto de mi atención y es precisamente por esta actitud voyeurista hacia la propia observación y experiencia del sujeto que se manifiesta la dimensión analítica consciente en la obra.

  Antoni Tapies

  Attitude, Law, Attention

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" de Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, editado por Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 30), 2004.

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