The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?" "There is only one girl I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own attempts to live as the Redeemer would have… — Cecil O. Samuelson Copy Share Image
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
Galen's observations reflect one of the distinctive features of early Christianity. Roman-era religion was mainly about ritual actions vis-à-vis the gods, and… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Somebody once observed--and the observation did him credit, whoever he was--that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they… — Albert Richard Smith Copy Share Image
“...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his… — Richard Tillinghast Copy Share Image
It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Very often I hear talk about female literature, or femininity in literature. It's a categorization I am not sure about. Maybe there… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
My observation is that the bias against female child is deeply ingrained, especially in certain parts of India and that it's not… — Abhinav Shukla Copy Share Image
An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
