Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value.… — Tycho Brahe
From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the… — Tycho Brahe
From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms. — Robert Koch
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Unknown Author
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist,… — Archibald Geikie
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look… — Unknown Author
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert
I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation. — Charles Darwin
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations. — Andreas Vesalius
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the worse for Maxwell's… — Arthur Eddington
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not… — Robert Boyle
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony… — Alexander Fleming
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little… — Michael Kinsley
Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things. — Matthew Tindal
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard… — Unknown Author
Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment,… — Astley Cooper

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