It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“Let go of choices you cant change and you will see smiles the rest of your days.” — Jackson Taviri Copy Share Image
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe. — Alton Brown 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
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ...… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness & Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
All through Latin America, there's sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it's qualified by the observation that although… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The event concept was sparked from a shared observation amongst these leading lifestyle brands that the economic rebound has spurred greater liquidity… — Andrea Savage Copy Share Image
“The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
