One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The idea of getting old and dying, falling apart, does not sound fun at all to me, but it's an observation that… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the… — Arthur Eddington 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
An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Another observation, in a former letter of yours, has not escaped my remembrance – the three lessons which a minister has to… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous… — James Bryant Conant 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
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy:… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image