"To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it)."

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Source : George E. P. Box, George C. Tiao (1985). “The collected works of George E.P. Box”, Chapman & Hall/CRC

George E. P. Box

#Observation Quotes #Interfere Quotes

“I might not know where you are or what you are doing right now, but if you hear my voice will you come to me?”
“The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.”
“The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.”

Source : Erica Bauermeister (2013). “The Lost Art of Mixing”, p.136, Penguin
“Procrustes was an editor.”

Source : 1991 A Devious Dictionary.
“I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.”
“I try to hit the ball along the ground, especially against fast bowlers. I also like the bat to come down in the right position and check if my body position is correct. If I'm really watching the ball carefully, then automatically I'm in a good position to hit it down the ground.”
“Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.”
“The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.”

Source : David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.17, Paulist Press

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