Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do… — Joshua Reynolds
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more… — Erwin Schrodinger
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… — Galileo Galilei
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must… — Denis Diderot
I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which… — Galileo Galilei
I would by all means have men beware, lest Ã†sop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at… — Francis Bacon
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively… — Joseph Paxton
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and… — John Desmond Bernal
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. — Carl Linnaeus
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they… — William Whewell
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and… — Stephen Jay Gould
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches. — Claude Bernard
In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye… — John Burroughs
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are… — Charles Sanders Peirce
It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is… — Henri Poincare
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
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack… — Florence Nightingale
Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then… — Charles Francis Richter
Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by… — Claude Bernard

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