Observation Group

Famous quotes containing the words observation and/or group:

    “I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.”
    —Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)