To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed… — Francis Bacon 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
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
“I observed you in pain, lad. Pain’s merely the axis of the test. Your mother’s told you about our ways of observing.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A sunset, almost formidable in its splendor, would be lingering in the fully exposed sky. Among its imperceptibly changing amassments, one could… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a… — Johann Gottfried Galle Copy Share Image
A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe…It is foolish… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively… — J. H. Plumb Copy Share Image
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We try so hard to instruct our children in all the right things―teaching good from bad, explaining choices and consequences―when in reality… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a… — I. Bernard Cohen 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
“***AN OBSERVATION*** A pair of train guards. A pair of grave diggers. When it came down to it, one of them called… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are… — Sam Cooke Copy Share Image
What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those… — August Macke Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy. That's why most of the elderly wear pants… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
When we turn on our observation capabilities, we become much more in the moment and much more powerful. Psychic powers have been… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and… — William John Wills Copy Share Image
A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image