The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the… — Henry Augustus Rowland Copy Share Image
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can tell almost as much about a person by what kinds of books they haven't read as you can by those… — Michael E. Weil Copy Share Image
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation. — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio… — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
“It is hard to be good and easy to be evil, but the benefits of being good outweighs that of evil and… — Jackson Taviri Copy Share Image
We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable. — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes… — James Pollard Espy Copy Share Image
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a… — Henry Fielding 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
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
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image