“Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down.… — John Hannah Copy Share Image
When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been. . .by… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something… — Jonathan D. Spence Copy Share Image
Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic… — Anselm J. McLaurin Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Why you were born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of this world and what… — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“The wave quality of light is the same as that of the electron. The wave determines the probable location of the photon… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
“By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes,… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
“Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard… — Sarah Blake Copy Share Image
“Our observer is not affected by emotional ups and downs, our personal life dramas, or by the events of the external world.… — Marcey Shapiro Copy Share Image
There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're… — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went… — Junipero Serra Copy Share Image
There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend… — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
