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• I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

  Eric Bana

  Thinking, Imagination

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• Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull, just a presence that perceives, as a ghoast might. Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It's a little like reading, isn't it-that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.

  Michael Cunningham

  Moving, Reading, Thinking

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• Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

  Lauren Conrad

  Tools, World

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• Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.

  James Buchan

  New York, Inspiration, Islamic

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Independent, Moon

  "A Consciousness-Based Science" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Healing, Health

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 13, 2011

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• If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

  Noam Chomsky

  Interesting, Long, Mars

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• What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Science, Events, Roles

  Wolfgang Pauli (2008). “Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u.a. Band IV, Teil III: 1955–1956. Scientific Correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, a.o. Volume IV, Part III: 1955–1956”, p.148, Springer-Verlag

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• Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

  Robert Lanza

  Mean, Reality, Determined

  "What Is Death?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Egypt, Heritage, Strange

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• I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

  Jon Meacham

  Children, Growing Up, Father

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• Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

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• If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Party, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

  Nelson Mandela

  America, Political, United States

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Ideas, People

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• The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Lying, Desire

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• What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Nature, Weakness, Humans

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 7, 1799.

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• I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

  Annie Lennox

  Visuals, Persons

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• Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

  Christopher Lasch

  Knowledge, Reality, Copies

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• Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

  George Meredith

  Knowledge, Blow, Men

  George Meredith, Maura C. Ives (1998). “George Meredith's Essay On Comedy and Other New Quarterly Magazine Publications: A Critical Edition”, p.120, Bucknell University Press

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• Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

  Mark Twain

  Funny Inspirational, Men, Differences

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.19, Univ of California Press

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• In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because we are aware of it.

  Martin Rees

  Science, Years, Matter

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• In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Experience, Observation

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• Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will enable the observer to discover general laws governing facts of the kind in question. The two stages, first of observation, and second of inference to a law, are both essential, and each is susceptible of almost indefinite refinement. (1931)

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Law, Essence

  Bertrand Russell (2017). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.19, Routledge

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• The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

  Georges Cuvier

  Science, Force, Observation

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