Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation,… — Julian Baggini
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer… — Neill Blomkamp
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it… — Martin Filler
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all… — Greg Graffin
I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive… — Greg Graffin
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits,… — Greg Graffin
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace. — Tullian Tchividjian
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. — Gustave Flaubert
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are… — Jonathan Safran Foer
A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no… — Terry Pratchett
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. — Marshall McLuhan
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes… — Niels Bohr
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. — Claude Monet
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in… — Alan Moore
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that… — William S. Burroughs
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the… — William Faulkner
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts?… — Charles de Lint
I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come… — Marianne Williamson
The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come… — Rick Riordan
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it. — Margaret Atwood
And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that… — Franz Kafka
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… — John Dewey

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