Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence. — August Macke
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist… — Henri Matisse
Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of all muddy colors,… — Paul Signac
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable — Robert Delaunay
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing… — Charles Caleb Colton
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it. — Charles Dickens
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a… — Stephen Hawking
The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of… — Jean-Baptiste Say
The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness,… — Humberto Maturana
Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology. — Ken Rockwell
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new… — Samuel Johnson
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition. — Denis Waitley
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed — John Searle
All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking… — PZ Myers
Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital… — Jonathan Ive
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem. — David Chalmers
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. — Robert Penn Warren
No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it. — Harlow Shapley
Theories crumble, but good observations never fade. — Harlow Shapley
Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book. — William Shakespeare
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling… — Charles Caleb Colton
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient… — Wilhelm Wundt

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