Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“As Carl Sagan said, “Observation: I can’t see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.” — Nathalia Holt Copy Share Image
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches. — Claude Bernard 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
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I… — Emile Zola 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
Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman 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
I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations."… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders,… — Dan Rather 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
Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
“It was so completely obvious, and yet what proof was there? It was, Martin thought, like the rabbit which the Hindus see… — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began.… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form — Andrew Loomis Copy Share Image
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image