The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate, and the… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When your life is not in balance and you're struggling to achieve stability, practicing observation without judgment gets really interesting, and very… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“...without thinking the follow-up thought that prevents a person from following through with the original, she throws the tea in the mug… — Ani Baker Copy Share Image
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first… — Thomas G. West Copy Share Image
Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We are today beginning to see work by very reputable scientists that says the universe is created by our observations. It is… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in… — Robert James Graves Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance… — James Randi Copy Share Image
At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
“The days of my youth, as I look back on them; seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“They lived on the even tenor found advisable in the experience of old families of the Western world, brought up rather than… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation… — Derek Barton Copy Share Image
There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
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