History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“Horses don't speak, but they communicate through body language. If you look very closely, you'll find out your horse has been trying… — Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
“and I think (like you, by the way) that theory cannot be fabricated out of the results of observation, but that it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The secret is in the details and in observing a lot. You have to pay a great deal of attention, constantly, to… — Guillem Balague Copy Share Image
In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown… — Frederic Joliot-Curie Copy Share Image
All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
A Friend Will Be There When Its Convenient. A Best Friend Will Be There Whenever You Need 'em. Know Your Friends — Dul Copy Share Image
Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see… — Tsitsi Dangarembga Copy Share Image
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive… — Helene Deutsch Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we… — Eratosthenes Copy Share Image
I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely… — Len Goodman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
My own observation is: lovers don't surrender to each other, they surrender to something unknown that exists between them. They surrender to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image