If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm excited about is the observation that gamers are creators and creators are gamers too. We used to… — Jensen Huang Copy Share Image
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
[Isaiah] Berlin's observation is accurate enough, and applies at home as well, and even more harshly for the reasons already mentioned: the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“A sunset, almost formidable in its splendor, would be lingering in the fully exposed sky. Among its imperceptibly changing amassments, one could… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The concept of intuition is more often used in philosophical theorizing than is the concept of observation in scientific theorizing (proportionately). One… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch. A demon. Hell, I could… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and with such… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All through Latin America, there's sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it's qualified by the observation that although… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Every observation that we make, every mission that we send to various places in the solar system is just taking us one… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend;… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
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