The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat Copy Share Image
On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations... — David Douglass Copy Share Image
I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information… — Katharine Kolcaba Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“You can't do clear observation if you ain't in the field. You can't be a pure observer if you're now in the… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Before her was a man who wasted words on no one. If he said something, you could take the worth of his… — Sarah Winter Copy Share Image
This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Those who believe they know it all should not fret when they ultimately realize they do not, for when there is nothing… — Matt Marlin Copy Share Image
You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you go so far in your life, you can’t get back though you know it’s not really your life.” — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went… — Junipero Serra Copy Share Image
As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
