“I look forward and see myself look back.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.”
Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 3. Echoing Emergence, p. 97
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“The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In Churchill by Himself (2008), Appendix I: Red Herrings, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 577 ISBN 1586486381; “Commonly ascribed to WSC, even by The Queen (Christmas Message, 1999). What Churchill actually said was ‘The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward’”. <br class="br">The attribution of the mistaken form of the quote to Churchill dates from at least 1959 https://books.google.com/books?id=QN3hAAAAMAAJ&dq=The+farther+backward+you+look%2C+the+further+forward+you+can+see&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22backward+you+can+look%22. <br class="br">Misattributed
Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905–1992) 11th Chief Justice of India
Speech By Mr. S. G. Page, Government Pleader, High Court, Bombay, Made On Monday, 28 September, 1992
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
"The Regressive Method of Discovering the Premises of Mathematics" (1907), in Essays in Analysis (1973), pp. 273–274
1900s
“We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.”
Mark Tobey (1890–1976) American abstract expressionist painter
Source: 1950's, In: Reminiscence and Reverie, 1951, p. 231
“If you can see, look. If you can look, observe.”
José Saramago book Blindness
Se podes olhar, vê. Se podes ver, repara.
Epigraph
Blindness (1995)
Karl Popper book The Poverty of Historicism
The Poverty of Historicism (1957) Ch. 29 The Unity of Method
Context: If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.
