Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science. — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I have a problem with others taking things that don't belong to them. The worst form of thievery is taking ownership of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend… — Tony MacAlpine Copy Share Image
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition! — RuPaul Copy Share Image
“ Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Twelve Observation #1: Guys make absolutely no sense. I thought he liked me,… — Kate Brian Copy Share Image
Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
“We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything, our observation opens the windows of knowledge around us.” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Negativity will always play with the mind while positivity is chosen by those who have the courage to overcome.” — Jackson Taviri Copy Share Image
The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking. — Giorgio Baglivi Copy Share Image
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