Observation quotes
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Observation capitalizes inspiration.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
-- Alfred Nobel -
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.
-- Alfred Richard Orage -
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I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
-- Andreas Vesalius -
Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.
-- Arnold Lobel -
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
-- Barry Long -
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
-- Bernard Baruch -
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Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning
-- Bertrand Russell -
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
-- Billy West -
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson -
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
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Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.
-- Charles Lamb -
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
-- Claude Bernard -
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
-- Claude Bernard -
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
-- Claude Bernard -
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There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
-- David Chalmers -
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
-- David Dinkins -
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
-- David Douglass -
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.
-- Denis Waitley -
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
-- Edmund Burke -
Observations always involve theory.
-- Edwin Powell Hubble -
If a writer stops observing, he is finished.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
Hope clouds observation.
-- Frank Herbert -
Reality gets created through acts of observation
-- Fred Alan Wolf -
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
-- George E. P. Box -
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It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.
-- George Gaylord Simpson -
Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.
-- George Meredith -
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
-- George William Curtis -
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
-- Georges Cuvier -
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I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.
-- Greg Behrendt -
Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.
-- Harlow Shapley -
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.
-- Henri Poincare -
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
-- Henry Moore -
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The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.
-- Hugh Ross -
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
-- Ian Hacking -
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
-- J. D. Salinger -
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
-- Jacqueline Carey -
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
-- Jean Paul -
All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.
-- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck -
The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say -
With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say -
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But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.
-- Jeff Ross -
The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.
-- Jeremiah P. Ostriker -
When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.
-- John D. Barrow -
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The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
-- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn -
A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
-- Jose Bergamin -
Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.
-- Kate DiCamillo -
Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.
-- Ken Rockwell -
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Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.
-- Lucian Freud -
It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.
-- Lynn Andrews -
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When you make an observation, you have an obligation.
-- M. K. Asante -
Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.
-- Maria Mitchell -
Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.
-- Marie Francois Xavier Bichat -
An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.
-- Marina Tsvetaeva -
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I blog; therefore, I am.
-- Mark R. Woodward -
Everyone has a bad hair day; the trick is not to have one on picture day.
-- Mark R. Woodward -
You have to unzip your heart before you unzip your pants.
-- Mark R. Woodward -
There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication....
-- Morris K. Jessup -
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By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.
-- Morris Raphael Cohen -
You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
-- Mos Def -
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
-- Paul Getty -
I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it.
-- Paula Poundstone -
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It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
-- Percy Williams Bridgman -
Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.
-- Philip Pearlstein -
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
-- Publilius Syrus -
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable
-- Robert Delaunay -
Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation,
-- Robert Hewison -
From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.
-- Robert Koch -
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!
-- RuPaul -
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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
-- Samuel Richardson -
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
-- Solomon Northup -
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
-- Spike Lee -
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
-- Stanisław I Leszczyński -
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Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.
-- Susanna Clarke -
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.
-- Timothy McVeigh -
You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.
-- Tsitsi Dangarembga -
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
-- Vera Rubin -
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A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.
-- Virginia Satir -
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
-- Wallace Stevens -
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
-- Werner Heisenberg -
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.
-- Wilhelm Wundt -
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The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
-- William Gilbert -
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.
-- William Stanley Jevons -
Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human beings, someone who doesn't actually live in the true sense of the word, but who consists rather of words and literature. In my view, that is, however, only half true. In a roundabout way through literature, which presupposes empathy and exact observation, he immerses himself again in the life of society; in a certain sense he comes back to it.
-- Reiner Stach -
Art is more to do with observation than invention.
-- Michael Craig-Martin -
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All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.
-- Norwood Russell Hanson -
[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.
-- Robert Hewison -
If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.
-- Jerry A. Coyne -
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.
-- Julius Shulman -
