"With documentary, you observe something that you haven't set up," says Loach enthusiastically.
In 2010, 3,000 mathematicians applauded Cédric Villani as he received one for his work on entropy (which he describes as "the uncertainty that remains after you observe something").
That is, if you observe something abnormal – a high fever, a high share price, a long, unseasonable stretch of sunny or rainy days – then chances are that all will soon fall back within normal range.
That's when you observe something, let it slip into your subconscious where it gets processed, and at some point, returns back to your conscious.
How do you know you have observed something that has never been seen before?
Deduction is when you separate the important details from the unimportant ones after you have observed something.
Though you shouldn't ask yourself so many questions that you're not living in the moment, you should keep your mind active when you're observing something so you have the best sense of what's going on.
"You should have that feeling that you're observing something that's a little too intimate," Mr. Damon said, "and it would feel the same way if it were between a man and a woman.
If the DAMA result were a genuine observation rather than experimental error, says Sadoulet, "we would have observed something like 150 events".
"When you look out across a starry night, you're observing something that was set into motion a long time ago, that happened … far away".
