#observation

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ignorance #observation

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#beyond #finds #good #health #hurt

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#enough #even #few #few men #fewer

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#intuitive #may #meaning #medium #natural

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did. ↗

— Jack Adams

#believe #better #did #equipment #fighting

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem. ↗

— David Chalmers

#certainly #conscious #experience #hard #nothing