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Observation Quotes by Denis Diderot
- 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…
- There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of…
- Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason,…
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- Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation… — Marcus Aurelius
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what… — Francis Bacon
- If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell
- As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred,… — James Hutton
- If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. — Robert Baden-Powell
- It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have… — Ansel Adams