Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“So much of life was about noticing things, he thought. It was about observation.” — James Runcie Copy Share Image
Observations often tell you more about the observer than the observed. — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in… — Lily King Copy Share Image
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Dean Walker, my brother. The man that's well on his way to earning the proud title of town drunk.” — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I've only been three years in the industry - but I would say from my observations, my personal opinions, that the world… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the… — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding… — Marianne Williamson 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
The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations… — Tsung-Dao Lee Copy Share Image
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as… — Hubert Reeves Copy Share Image
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Let go of choices you cant change and you will see smiles the rest of your days.” — Jackson Taviri Copy Share Image
Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
