Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

Observation #8: Boys are icky. Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in a haz-mat team.… — Kate Brian
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. — Tim Minchin
Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation. — Markus Zusak
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses… — Kazuo Ishiguro
A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his… — Thomas Mann
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and… — Ilchi Lee
Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe. — Alton Brown
Drop jealousy and love wells up. Jealousy means that I am the owner. It is an ego trip, and wherever there is ego there is… — Rajneesh
To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to… — Galileo Galilei
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and… — James Bryant Conant
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make… — Claude Bernard
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular… — William James
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to… — Carl Sagan
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation. — Niels Bohr
I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have… — Charles Darwin
None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as… — Warren Buffett
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon… — Thomas Huxley
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes… — G I Gurdjieff
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in… — Alfred North Whitehead
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils… — Benjamin Rush
Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it… — Georges Cuvier
Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot be… — David Attenborough
Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus there is no… — Karl Popper

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