Observation Matrix

Famous quotes containing the words observation and/or matrix:

“Let observation with extensive view;
Survey mankind, from China to Peru;”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)