Observation Quotes · Page 8

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,…

— Rudyard Kipling

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where…

— Gavin de Beer

Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe…

— Samuel Warren Carey

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human…

— Alfred Nobel

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It…

— Joseph Conrad

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't…

— Bob Dylan

Science is simply common sense at its best.

— Thomas Huxley

Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions…

— Louis Pasteur

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting…

— James Joseph Sylvester

The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth…

— Denis Diderot

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course…

— Christopher Bollen

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

— L. Ron Hubbard

Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled…

— Archibald Geikie

From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the…

— Desiderius Erasmus

In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of…

— Auguste Comte

[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to…

— James Joseph Sylvester

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope…

— Lee Child

The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army…

— Rick Riordan

None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach…

— Warren Buffett

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

— Auguste Comte

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I’m mesmerized by lipstick prints on coffee cups. By the lines of lips against white pottery. By the color chosen by the…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

The magic is in the breaking the cycle of response by observing something in nature, something a close to you as your…

— Anonymous

The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few…

— Jane Hamilton