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> [Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-burroughs/natural-history-is-a-matter-of-observation-it-is-a-harvest-which-you/)

[John Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-burroughs/)

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> [The event concept was sparked from a shared observation amongst these leading lifestyle brands that the economic rebound has spurred greater liquidity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-savage/the-event-concept-was-sparked-from-a-shared-observation-amongst-these/)

Andrea Savage

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> [I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/i-cannot-but-be-astonished-that-sarsi-should-persist-in-trying-to/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

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> [There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-augustus-rowland/there-is-no-such-thing-as-absolute-truth-and-absolute-falsehood-the/)

Henry Augustus Rowland

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> [“That a free, or at least an unsaturated acid usually exists in the stomachs of animals, and is in some manner connected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-prout/that-a-free-or-at-least-an-unsaturated-acid-usually-exists-in-the/)

William Prout

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> [Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elsa-maxwell/fight-fire-with-fire-if-you-must-have-bores-always-put-them-together/)

[Elsa Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elsa-maxwell/)

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> [“Must the interest of life wane for us all as the progress of knowledge curtails the playground of imagination? No doubt it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eha-introduced-by-ruskin-bond/must-the-interest-of-life-wane-for-us-all-as-the-progress-of/)

EHA Introduced By Ruskin Bond

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> [“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/i-know-now-that-a-writer-cannot-afford-to-give-in-to-feelings-of-rage/)

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/)

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> [“For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-schneier/for-if-we-are-observed-in-all-matters-we-are-constantly-under-threat-2/)

[Bruce Schneier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-schneier/)

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> [But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noah-webster/but-the-origin-of-the-american-republic-is-distinguished-by-peculiar/)

[Noah Webster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noah-webster/)

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> [It's likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-calder/it-s-likely-that-co2-has-some-warming-effect-but-real-proof-of-that/)

[Nigel Calder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-calder/)

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> [Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance… By the elimination of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-signac/art-is-a-creation-of-a-higher-order-than-a-copy-of-nature-which-is/)

[Paul Signac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-signac/)

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> [Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-of-alexandria/our-whole-life-can-go-on-in-observation-of-the-laws-of-nature-if-we/)

[Clement of Alexandria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-of-alexandria/)

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> [the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herodotus/the-egyptians-were-the-first-to-discover-the-solar-year-and-to/)

[Herodotus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herodotus/)

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> [When I'm taking the subway to my improv shows I will be writing in my notebook different actions that I see people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-birbiglia/when-i-m-taking-the-subway-to-my-improv-shows-i-will-be-writing-in-my/)

[Mike Birbiglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-birbiglia/)

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> [But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-bacon/but-by-far-the-greatest-hindrance-and-aberration-of-the-human/)

[Francis Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-bacon/)

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> [But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-bacon/but-the-idols-of-the-market-place-are-the-most-troublesome-of-all/)

[Francis Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-bacon/)

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> [If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isambard-kingdom-brunel/if-the-commission-is-to-enquire-into-the-conditions-to-be-observed-it/)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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> [“Mindfulness & Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-woodman/mindfulness-meditation-help-focus-on-the-moment-while-at-the-same/)

[Jay Woodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-woodman/)

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> [It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-c-clarke/it-is-a-good-principle-in-science-not-to-believe-any-fact-however/)

[Arthur C. Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-c-clarke/)

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> [Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-warren-carey/do-not-expect-to-be-hailed-as-a-hero-when-you-make-your-great/)

Samuel Warren Carey

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> [After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-clark/after-a-lifetime-in-this-subject-i-have-concluded-that-the/)

Jerome Clark

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> [“To resolve the discrepancy between waves of probability and our commonsense notion of existence, Bohr and Heisenberg assumed that after a measurement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michio-kaku/to-resolve-the-discrepancy-between-waves-of-probability-and-our/)

[Michio Kaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michio-kaku/)

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> [Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/historical-science-is-not-worse-more-restricted-or-less-capable-of/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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> [Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-ron-hubbard/despite-the-amount-of-suffering-pain-misery-sorrow-and-travail-which/)

[L. Ron Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-ron-hubbard/)

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> [Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-mctaggart/our-natural-state-of-being-is-in-relationship-a-tango-a-constant/)

[Lynne McTaggart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-mctaggart/)

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> [Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinout-willem-van-bemmelen/experiments-in-geology-are-far-more-difficult-than-in-physics-and/)

[Reinout Willem van Bemmelen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinout-willem-van-bemmelen/)

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> [Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-bernard/men-who-have-excessive-faith-in-their-theories-or-ideas-are-not-only/)

[Claude Bernard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-bernard/)

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> [Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-samuel/years-of-observation-and-thought-have-given-increasing-strength-to/)

[Maurice Samuel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-samuel/)

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> [If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/esther-hicks/if-you-ve-got-somebody-s-aspects-in-your-experience-that-you-don-t/)

[Esther Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/esther-hicks/)

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> [ For those \[observations\] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tycho-brahe/for-those-observations-that-i-made-in-leipzig-in-my-youth-and-up-to/)

[Tycho Brahe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tycho-brahe/)

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> [As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-frank/as-the-great-naturalist-charles-darwin-saw-clearly-individual-and/)

[Bob Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-frank/)

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> [The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/the-physicist-in-his-study-of-natural-phenomena-has-two-methods-of/)

[Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-dirac/)

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> [I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-kuan-yew/i-started-off-believing-all-men-were-equal-i-now-know-that-s-the-most-2/)

[Lee Kuan Yew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-kuan-yew/)

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> [The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-patton/the-song-is-based-on-a-lot-of-observation-and-a-lot-of-speculation/)

[Mike Patton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-patton/)

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> [The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/the-ordinary-method-of-education-is-to-imprint-ideas-and-opinions-in/)

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

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> [The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-eagleman/the-left-hemisphere-acts-as-an-interpreter-watching-the-actions-and/)

[David Eagleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-eagleman/)

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> [I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity… But in order to try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-fielding/i-know-not-whether-it-would-be-too-bold-an-assertion-to-say-that/)

[Sarah Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-fielding/)

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> [It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/it-is-indeed-a-matter-of-great-difficulty-to-discover-and-effectually/)

[Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/)

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> [Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-m-krauss/discerning-the-merits-of-competing-claims-is-where-the-empirical/)

[Lawrence M. Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-m-krauss/)

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                        "text": "I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.",
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                        "text": "“Must the interest of life wane for us all as the progress of knowledge curtails the playground of imagination? No doubt it must in some measure, but there is another cause. I believe that in these days we have too many occupations, too many interests; we know too many things, and, if you will, have too many advantages and facilities. Our faculty of taking an interest is dissipated and frittered away.”",
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                        "text": "“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone in a temper? If so, you didn't hear him out and lost track of his system of opinions. You avoided someone out of disgust—and a completely unknown personality slipped out of your ken—precisely the type you would have needed someday. But, however tardily, I nonetheless caught myself and realized I had always devoted my time and attention to people who fascinated me and were pleasant, who engaged my sympathy, and that as a result I was seeing society like the Moon, always from one side.”",
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                        "text": "“For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that — either now or in the uncertain future — patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.\" [ The Eternal Value of Privacy , May 18, 2006]”",
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                        "text": "But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally been the result of a single man's observations; or the offspring of particular interests. In the formation of our constitution, the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted-as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. In short, it is an empire of reason.",
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                        "text": "It's likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation exactly how the CO2 changes the situation at different altitudes in the atmosphere and in different regions of the world. For example, CO2 is supposed to warm the upper air faster than the surface, but the measurements don't show that happening. When the CO2 effect is eventually pinned down, it will probably turn out to be weaker and much less worrisome than predicted by the global warming theorists.",
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                        "text": "Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance… By the elimination of all muddy colors, by the exclusive use of optical mixture of pure colors, by a methodical divisionism and a strict observation of the scientific theory of colors, the neo-impressionists insures a maximum of luminosity, of color intensity, and of harmony- a result that has never yet been obtained.",
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                        "text": "Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.",
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                        "text": "the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them",
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                        "text": "When I'm taking the subway to my improv shows I will be writing in my notebook different actions that I see people doing on the train whether it's eating yogurt or looking at where their stop is, or tripping or holding a baby. It's not preparing scenes and ideas as much as it is stoking your brain to think observantly. Just to place observations in your head, so that they are available somewhere.",
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                        "text": "But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.",
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                        "text": "But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.",
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                        "text": "If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions \"to be observed,\" it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their enquiries; or, in other words, that they will lay down, or at least suggest, \"rules\" and \"conditions to be (hereafter) observed\" in the construction of bridges, or, in other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement to-morrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of to-day. [Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.]",
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                        "text": "“Mindfulness & Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in a flow of moments we let flow. We can watch moments in detail without being attached to them. Non-attachment to past & future stems from this practice. Worry about past or future is wasted energy, however we can observe the past & learn from it without agonising over it & trust ourselves to handle the future better. We can celebrate the opportunity to grow as we gain understanding from observation & experience. We can watch ourselves & avoid being caught up in over-reactions. \"I am loved, right now, in this moment, I love, and am part of love itself. I am aware of myself at every level - the mental slowing gracefully to sense the spiritual within & all around, and the physical being still, or moving. I tune in to the flow of life in my body & the flow of life everywhere. I circulate love with each breath - from without to within & from within to all around.”",
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                        "text": "It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.",
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                        "text": "Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your examiners. Your statistics, or your observations, or your literature study, or your something else will be patently deficient. Do not doubt that in our enlightened age the really important advances are and will be rejected more often than acclaimed. Nor should we doubt that in our own professional lifetime we too will repudiate with like pontifical finality the most significant insight ever to reach our desk.",
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                        "text": "After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling UFO reports into a scientifically defensible conceptual framework. By such reports I mean those with credible multiple or independent witnesses, instrumented observations, and physical evidence.",
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                        "text": "“To resolve the discrepancy between waves of probability and our commonsense notion of existence, Bohr and Heisenberg assumed that after a measurement is made by an outside observer, the wave function magically “collapses,” and the electron falls into a definite state—that is, after looking at the tree, we see that it is truly standing. In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron. Observation is vital to existence.”",
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                        "text": "Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).",
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                        "text": "Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.",
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                        "text": "Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other... By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to extend a kind of super-radiance to the world.",
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                        "text": "Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories, up to the earth itself, and also because of the fact that the geologic time scale exceeds the human time scale by a million and more times. This difference in time allows only direct observations of the actual geologic processes, the mind having to imagine what could possibly have happened in the past.",
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                        "text": "Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.",
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                        "text": "Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks the humanity I know into two distinct parts; that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences among you gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divided all of you from us.",
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