#observe

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#avoid #confidence #desire #experimental #goes

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

The detached observer's view is one window on the world. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#observer #view #window #world

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. ↗

— Plutarch

#carefully #endeavor #excel #excellent #faulty

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#business #crowd #curiosity #curious #his

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#make #more #observations #observer #ourselves

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology. ↗

— John Pople

#close #developments #i #molecular #observer

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. ↗

— Alice Walker

#holy #making #observe #rest #sabbath

In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#observed

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#lay #least #most #observation #observe