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> [The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i-bernard-cohen/the-seventeenth-century-witnessed-the-birth-of-modern-science-as-we/)

[I. Bernard Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/i-bernard-cohen/)

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> [“But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elaine-dundy/but-what-the-hell-i-told-myself-it-wasn-t-as-if-i-were-one-of-them-or/)

[Elaine Dundy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elaine-dundy/)

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> [Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-firth/some-people-come-up-to-be-directors-by-coming-through-the-camera/)

[Colin Firth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-firth/)

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> [I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i-f-stone/i-sought-in-political-reporting-what-galsworthy-in-another-context/)

[I. F. Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/i-f-stone/)

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> [My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/my-observation-is-that-whenever-one-person-is-found-adequate-to-the/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-nicholls/she-drinks-pints-of-coffee-and-writes-little-observations-and-ideas/)

[David Nicholls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-nicholls/)

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> [“\*\*\*AN OBSERVATION\*\*\* A pair of train guards. A pair of grave diggers. When it came down to it, one of them called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/markus-zusak/an-observation-a-pair-of-train-guards-a-pair-of-grave-diggers-when-it/)

[Markus Zusak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/markus-zusak/)

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> [If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gao-xingjian/if-while-observing-the-boundless-universe-the-writer-is-able-to/)

[Gao Xingjian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gao-xingjian/)

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> [ \[The\] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-schoenheimer/the-weakness-of-biological-balance-studies-has-aptly-been-illustrated/)

[Rudolph Schoenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolph-schoenheimer/)

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> [With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-powell-hubble/with-increasing-distance-our-knowledge-fades-and-fades-rapidly/)

[Edwin Powell Hubble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-powell-hubble/)

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> [Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-francois-xavier-bichat/medicine-is-an-incoherent-assemblage-of-incoherent-ideas-and-is/)

[Marie Francois Xavier Bichat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-francois-xavier-bichat/)

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> [ \[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"\]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jasper-fforde/from-the-television-show-evade-the-question-time-at-the-end-of-the/)

[Jasper Fforde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jasper-fforde/)

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> [I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-h-jackson/i-do-not-know-whether-it-is-the-view-of-the-court-that-a-judge-must/)

[Robert H. Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-h-jackson/)

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> [The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-armstrong/the-single-observation-i-would-offer-for-your-consideration-is-that/)

[Neil Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-armstrong/)

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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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-gottfried-galle/sir-the-planet-neptune-whose-position-you-marked-out-actually-exists/)

[Johann Gottfried Galle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-gottfried-galle/)

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> [If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-we-could-suppose-a-great-multitude-of-men-to-consent-to-the/)

[Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/)

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> [When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-wolpert/when-it-was-suggested-to-pasteur-that-many-of-his-great-achievements/)

[Lewis Wolpert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-wolpert/)

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> [Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-illich/observations-of-the-sickening-effect-of-programmed-environments-show/)

[Ivan Illich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-illich/)

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> [The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niels-bohr/the-great-extension-of-our-experience-in-recent-years-has-brought/)

[Niels Bohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niels-bohr/)

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> [The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-feynman/the-philosophical-question-before-us-is-when-we-make-an-observation/)

[Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-feynman/)

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> [The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-theory-that-can-absorb-the-greatest-number-of-facts-and-persist/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

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> [It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-hamilton/it-is-a-just-observation-that-the-people-commonly-intend-the-public/)

[Alexander Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-hamilton/)

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> [It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-heisenberg/it-seems-sensible-to-discard-all-hope-of-observing-hitherto/)

[Werner Heisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-heisenberg/)

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> [This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/this-then-is-what-counts-a-lightning-reaction-which-has-no-further/)

[Eugen Herrigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugen-herrigel/)

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> [Every once a while we must learn to recapitulate the worth of observation. The observation of the pretty mother nature is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramandeep-singh/every-once-a-while-we-must-learn-to-recapitulate-the-worth-of/)

[Ramandeep Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramandeep-singh/)

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> [Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/imagination-which-is-a-quality-writers-must-have-does-not-mean-the/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

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> [Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-tory-peterson/birds-are-sensitive-indicators-of-the-environment-a-sort-of/)

[Roger Tory Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-tory-peterson/)

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> [I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-don-t-suggest-that-the-observations-are-surprising-or-profound/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/you-have-lived-longer-than-i-have-and-perhaps-may-have-formed-a/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-kinsley/many-hard-scientists-regard-the-term-social-science-as-an-oxymoron/)

[Michael Kinsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-kinsley/)

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> [It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-katz/it-is-a-commonplace-executive-observation-that-businesses-exist-to/)

[Daniel Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-katz/)

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> [That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/that-human-life-must-be-some-kind-of-mistake-is-sufficiently-proved/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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> [An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-redman/an-old-pop-music-producer-once-said-that-there-are-really-only-four/)

[Matt Redman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-redman/)

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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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viktor-schauberger/natural-phenomena-undisturbed-by-man-point-the-way-to-the-realization/)

[Viktor Schauberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viktor-schauberger/)

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> [“When we see, we do so many things: we experience what is happening in a direct way; we discover something we never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donis-a-dondis/when-we-see-we-do-so-many-things-we-experience-what-is-happening-in-a/)

[Donis A. Dondis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donis-a-dondis/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/our-conviction-that-green-cheese-makes-up-a-negligible-fraction-of/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

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> [My observation is that my dealings with the president on some of the most important issues that the president Donald Trump has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-pompeo/my-observation-is-that-my-dealings-with-the-president-on-some-of-the/)

[Mike Pompeo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-pompeo/)

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> [I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-c-fields/i-always-made-up-my-own-acts-built-them-out-of-my-knowledge-and/)

[W. C. Fields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-c-fields/)

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> [“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." \[ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/a-writer-i-think-is-someone-who-pays-attention-to-the-world-speech/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-finley/we-must-consider-not-only-why-the-classical-theory-of-democracy/)

[Moses Finley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-finley/)

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