The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
“But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two… — George Washington Copy Share Image
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“***AN OBSERVATION*** A pair of train guards. A pair of grave diggers. When it came down to it, one of them called… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings… — Rudolph Schoenheimer Copy Share Image
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat Copy Share Image
[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a… — Johann Gottfried Galle Copy Share Image
If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of… — Adam Smith 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
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
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
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
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
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Natural phenomena undisturbed by man point the way to the realization of a new technique. One needs a keen sense of observation.… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
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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
My observation is that my dealings with the president on some of the most important issues that the president Donald Trump has… — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels… — Susan Sontag 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
![“[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings forth one package of chewing gum; two pennies bring forth two. Interpreted according to the reasoning of balance physiology, the first observation is an…” quote by Rudolph Schoenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/rudolph-schoenheimer-274821_balance_the-weakness-of-biological-balance-studi_398949.jpg)
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![“Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the…” quote by Johann Gottfried Galle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/johann-gottfried-galle-248826_academy_sir-the-planet-neptune-whose-position-yo_2205721.jpg)
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