When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Galen's observations reflect one of the distinctive features of early Christianity. Roman-era religion was mainly about ritual actions vis-à-vis the gods, and… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by… — Mabel Osgood Wright 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
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
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
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
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will… — Ruth Hubbard Copy Share Image
Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?" "There is only one girl I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers… — Virginia Woolf 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 left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The idea of getting old and dying, falling apart, does not sound fun at all to me, but it's an observation that… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“ Sì perché l'autorità dell'opinione di mille nelle scienze non val per una scintilla di ragione di un solo, sì perché le… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image