Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these… — Susan Downey Copy Share Image
You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I suppose it's human tendency to treat the people who you've wronged badly though, isn't it? Easier to dismiss them if you… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
The wealthy don't cry over the fact that they are wealthy as long as the poor cry about the poverty that surrounds… — Morph Vishn Copy Share Image
Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Whoever came up with the term “Funny Bone” must have been a masochist, because hitting it is not funny at all…” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend… — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began.… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as… — Hubert Reeves Copy Share Image
In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from… — Ed Murray Copy Share Image
Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that… — James Randi Copy Share Image
A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats. — Mark R. Woodward Copy Share Image
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
