In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave,… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
We have the ability to be the ocean. And access all that infinite possibility, understanding, knowledge, awareness. Or we can get caught… — David Icke Copy Share Image
I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a… — Val Logsdon Fitch Copy Share Image
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my desk and… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“The builder has ginger curly hair on top of his head, and a thick moustache. He has the look of a McDonald’s… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them… — John Graunt Copy Share Image
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. — James Dobson Copy Share Image
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
“Photography is the power of observation,and not the application of technology…” — Prerna Sharma Copy Share Image
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations. — Julius Shulman Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the capacity to observe that some thought or inspiration you have experienced, bears repeating to another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
If you were to build a wall from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, you would still have to back that… — John F. Kelly Copy Share Image
Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer… — Jerry Adler Copy Share Image
An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard… — Sarah Blake Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is best to step back and observe the situation from outside. Renouncing action does not mean defeat it is a… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation.… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Whether you are trying to understand the mating habits of the Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth, or life itself, the process is pretty much… — Gary Moreau Copy Share Image
If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
“ Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Two Observation #1: When there’s food in their sights, boys notice little else.… — Kate Brian Copy Share Image
“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image