Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew. — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself. — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Finding a really good weblog is like finding the peanuts in a box of Cracker Jacks. They are in there, but you… — Mark R. Woodward Copy Share Image
The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“They lived on the even tenor found advisable in the experience of old families of the Western world, brought up rather than… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression – by any medium necessary. The… — M. K. Asante Copy Share Image
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The… — Lenny Abrahamson Copy Share Image
Observations often tell you more about the observer than the observed. — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image