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
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
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
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ...… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with… — Ron Lamothe Copy Share Image
Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless… — Andrew Jackson 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
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
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
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
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
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You have got to know what you're doing on your very first day there. So, look, this is not an attack or… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“It is an observation suggested by all history, and by none more than by that of James I and his successor [Charles… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Then Jip went up to the front of the ship and smelt the wind; and he started muttering to himself, "Tar; Spanish… — Hugh Lofting Copy Share Image
As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions.… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Drop jealousy and love wells up. Jealousy means that I am the owner. It is an ego trip, and wherever there is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight and… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I’m mesmerized by lipstick prints on coffee cups. By the lines of lips against white pottery. By the color chosen by the… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image