Quotes and Sayings About Observation
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Observation capitalizes inspiration.
-- Alex Faickney OsbornSource : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York
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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 -
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