Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us. — Studs Terkel
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite… — Kenzaburo Oe
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led… — Richard Owen
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves… — Joseph Warren
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have… — Franz Kafka
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the… — Jerry Spinelli
My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the… — Mark Strong
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer. — Billy West
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option. — Timothy McVeigh
When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the… — Barry Lopez
It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times.… — Harold MacMillan
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own… — Nicholson Baker
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge,… — Asa Gray
When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure. — John D. Barrow
Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or… — John Singer Sargent
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the… — Margaret Oliphant
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking. — Helene Deutsch
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be… — Michael Behe
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world… — Michael Behe
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one… — Francis Crick
We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at… — Robert Fortune
I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to:… — Len Goodman
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of… — Robert Hooke
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells,… — Archibald Garrod
I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation. — Elliott Erwitt

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