I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Understanding requires our own observation. Solutions frequently come in the form of mental pictures. The only prescription is to get out and… — David Sturt Copy Share Image
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance,… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope forother people… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
Every once a while we must learn to recapitulate the worth of observation. The observation of the pretty mother nature is a… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It… — Daniel Katz Copy Share Image
An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Our conviction that green cheese makes up a negligible fraction of the Moon's interior comes not from direct observation but from the… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
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