Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because you have nothing… — Rajneesh
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or… — Joseph Addison
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what… — Aristotle
I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know. — Stephen Jay Gould
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the… — Frances Harper
Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it… — Justus von Liebig
The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate, and the hands moving, for… — Justus von Liebig
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it). — George E. P. Box
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I… — Thomas Jefferson
Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it. — Unknown Author
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement… — Gilbert Burnet
...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in… — Thomas Sprat
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot… — James Hutton
Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars,… — Lyman Spitzer
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It… — Augustus De Morgan
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance. — James Hutton
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… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

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