The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it… — Dennis Stock Copy Share Image
In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first… — Thomas G. West Copy Share Image
Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
Another observation, in a former letter of yours, has not escaped my remembrance – the three lessons which a minister has to… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information… — Katharine Kolcaba Copy Share Image
Having said that, what I think we found, in doing the show, and in life, generally, is that the more you try… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I'm one of the many people who has said that the Hillary Clinton we know in private was effective, strong, courageous, and… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“The practice of self-observation mirrors the way in which a mother observes and attunes to her baby. Self-observation is a method of… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy:… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work for everyone, and that everyone… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm… — Benn Northover Copy Share Image
I remember being taken to visit houses by my father, who then tested my powers of observation by expecting me to describe… — David Linley Copy Share Image
I remain an active volunteer in the field of at-risk youth, so I'm pretty familiar with the landscape as it stands now,… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most… — Marcel Alexandre Bertrand Copy Share Image
You can learn new things from anyone, but choose people who teach you in a positive way rather than a negative one.… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
We 'rid ourselves of conceptual thought' when, by persistent observation, we recognize the unreality of our self-centered thoughts. Then we can remain… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate, and the… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
