A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to…

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

— Lucian Freud

Offsetting the sample position every time the sample hits will create more random movement in short samples.

— Bonobo

“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come…

— Tahir Shah

“Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a…

— Tahir Shah

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for…

— Alexis Carrel

The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this…

— Maria Montessori

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

“The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture.”

— Santosh Kalwar

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

— Robert Delaunay

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can…

— Allen W. Wood

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but…

— Florence Nightingale

Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

— Arthur Eddington

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke

The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his…

— Andrew Dickson White