I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence… — John Green Copy Share Image
You folks like TV, you watch a lot of TV? There's a show right here on CBS, it's a huge hit. It's… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I believe in having a few pupils at one time as it requires a constant alert observation of each individual in order… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation.… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave,… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
My art feels like it's real disobedient. I can fill notebooks with observations and maybe they find their way into the work… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) -… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
“second time you have made that observation. If one puts forward an idea to a true Englishman--always a rash thing to do--he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all… — Robert Koch Copy Share Image
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred,… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not… — Harry Harlow Copy Share Image
When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You… — John Steinbeck East of Eden Copy Share Image
It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults… — Julian Aleksandrowicz Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from… — Carl Mitcham Copy Share Image
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image