Field Observation Quotes

For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut.

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.

I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'

I can report from the field with a tiny camera and a laptop.

There are so many ways to do research - even watching old Ealing comedies, watching people getting on and off buses in London, looking at household interiors.

The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

Normally when I have students over, we sit in the house and look at the fields to try to catch a glimpse of a bobcat hunting.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.