I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere,… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations. — Andreas Vesalius Copy Share Image
“You can tell almost as much about a person by what kinds of books they haven't read as you can by those… — Michael E. Weil Copy Share Image
The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
“...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Somebody once observed--and the observation did him credit, whoever he was--that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they… — Albert Richard Smith Copy Share Image
As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies];… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
We have the ability to be the ocean. And access all that infinite possibility, understanding, knowledge, awareness. Or we can get caught… — David Icke Copy Share Image
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a… — David Hume 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
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
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
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
Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability. — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady. — Margaret Mitchell 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
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult… — William Osler Copy Share Image
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and… — John Ford Copy Share Image
“Observation is a great joy.” To write one’s observations, record such wonderings, the greatest joy of all.” — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general. — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
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