Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied… — Peter Medawar 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 East of Eden Copy Share Image
In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the… — Gordon L. Kane Copy Share Image
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“As the psychologist Steven Pinker puts it, “Exposure to worlds that can be seen only through the eyes of a foreigner, an… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm with the president nearly every day. We engage in complex conversations about some of the most weighty matters facing the world.… — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred,… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not… — Harry Harlow Copy Share Image
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from… — Carl Mitcham Copy Share Image
Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults… — Julian Aleksandrowicz Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument… — Humberto Maturana 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
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
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
Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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