To make democracy work we must be a notion of participants not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

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.

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.

You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is it uses a lot of fertilizer pesticides and water.

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.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

We are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

In the US you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server the police can get it without showing you anything.