Observable Quotes

32 quotes by 31 authors

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those… — Mary Astell
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and… — James Emanuel
Docility is the observable half of reason. — George Santayana
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more… — Werner Heisenberg
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring… — Alexis Carrel
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of… — Jacques Maritain
The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed. We wish very… — Henry Oldenburg
What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not… — Harold Jeffreys
... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since… — Mary Hesse
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… — Bruce Schneier
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of… — Jerome Bruner
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If… — Alfred Korzybski
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either,… — Kevin DeYoung
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in… — Susan Jacoby
We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information,… — Simon Singh
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere. — Abdolkarim Soroush
Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A… — Ernest Cline
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and… — Samuel Adams
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen,… — Jonathan Clements

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