[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Whether you are trying to understand the mating habits of the Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth, or life itself, the process is pretty much… — Gary Moreau Copy Share Image
“ Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry One Observation #1: When they’re beautiful, they know they’re beautiful. Like the second-to-oldest… — Kate Brian Copy Share Image
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating,… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
“To produce a valuable observation, one has first to have an idea of what to observe, a preconception of what is possible.… — François Jacob Copy Share Image
“The builder has ginger curly hair on top of his head, and a thick moustache. He has the look of a McDonald’s… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations."… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
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It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders,… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely new branch… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
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Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth;… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
“One could argue that the observer effect is the primary energetic dynamic of ‘reality’ itself. This effect showcases the eminently malleable nature… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown… — Frederic Joliot-Curie Copy Share Image
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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“The secret is in the details and in observing a lot. You have to pay a great deal of attention, constantly, to… — Guillem Balague Copy Share Image
In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
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