Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

You have to unzip your heart before you unzip your pants. — Mark R. Woodward
One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make friends with it.… — Wes Nisker
The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn't have to… — William Kentridge
But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven – number seven… — R. K. Laxman
The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number and types of… — Hans Alfred Nieper
As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own attempts to live as the Redeemer would have us live, let… — Cecil O. Samuelson
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in… — Auguste Comte
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know… — Claude Bernard
Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to… — John Buford
The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the… — Simon Newcomb
He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation. — Eugen Herrigel
Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma… — Judith Rodin
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his… — Samuel Johnson
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But… — Gaston Bachelard
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge. — Ronald Fisher
Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite… — Oliver Heaviside
I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use… — Richard P. Feynman
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to… — Antoine Lavoisier
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the… — Ezra Pound
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is… — Karl Jaspers
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of… — Claude Bernard
... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and… — Edmund Blair Bolles
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation. — Claude Bernard
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as… — Claude Bernard

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