The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors. — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
“The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.” — Eric Liu 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
[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
Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a… — Thaddeus S. C. Lowe 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
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical… — Kalakaua Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured… — Richard Hamming 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