Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their… — Claude Bernard
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can… — Harry Stack Sullivan
The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where observation can give… — Gavin de Beer
The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method… — Paul Dirac
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. — Ambrose Bierce
Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which… — David Hume
Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation. — H. L. Mencken
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through… — Tim Minchin
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end. — Thomas Jefferson
In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers. — James Boswell
Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation. — Arnold Lobel
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination… — Willa Cather
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations,… — John Desmond Bernal
This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of… — Michael Jackson
Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form — Andrew Loomis
A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not… — Henry David Thoreau
Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less… — Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. — John Singer Sargent
Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look. — L. Ron Hubbard
Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation — L. Ron Hubbard
Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and… — Monte Irvin
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome
Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. — Bernard Baruch
When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already… — Alan Turing

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