“Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine which state the object is in, we… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things. — Matthew Tindal Copy Share Image
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The house is seventies modern with sliding windows, gas-effect and a giant TV in the living room. There are almost no books.… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations… — Tsung-Dao Lee Copy Share Image
"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel… — Dudley R. Herschbach Copy Share Image
“If what we see or do is always seen as wrong than how can the right be seen and known.” — Jackson Taviri Copy Share Image
I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely… — Len Goodman 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
It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats. — Mark R. Woodward Copy Share Image
