Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
“We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything, our observation opens the windows of knowledge around us.” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“ Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Twelve Observation #1: Guys make absolutely no sense. I thought he liked me,… — Kate Brian Copy Share Image
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition! — RuPaul Copy Share Image
We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof… — John Adams 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
“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true. — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You've got to know who your dealing with,cause if you don't...it'll eat you up inside, when you find out who you're dealing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science. — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I have two righteous addictions. Firstly are my observations. Secondly, my imaginations.” — T.D. Otis Copy Share Image
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image