Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
You know, like, real paying attention and real observation and deep thought and deep consideration can be a bit, you know, miserable-making. — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Don't just look, observe. Don't just swallow, taste. Don't just sleep, dream. Don't just think, feel. Don't just exist, LIVE. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and… — Plato Copy Share Image
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it. — Abby Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Promises are sacred and must be treated with care, when it is broken than trust becomes a lifelong issue.” — Jackson Taviri Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're… — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies];… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
“It was so completely obvious, and yet what proof was there? It was, Martin thought, like the rabbit which the Hindus see… — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began.… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from… — Ed Murray Copy Share Image
We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as… — Hubert Reeves Copy Share Image
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image