Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for… — John Muir Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will… — Ruth Hubbard Copy Share Image
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation. — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first… — Thomas G. West Copy Share Image
The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They… — William James Copy Share Image
The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number… — Hans Alfred Nieper 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
Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you… — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
