Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more… — Werner Heisenberg
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack… — Florence Nightingale
Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then… — Charles Francis Richter
Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by… — Claude Bernard
Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding… — Francis Bacon
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or… — Francis Bacon
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science. — Claude Bernard
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. — Francis Bacon
Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the heart… — Marcello Malpighi
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer… — Henry David Thoreau
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it… — Victor J. Stenger
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts… — James Bryant Conant
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring… — Alexis Carrel
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… — Bertrand Russell
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of… — Jacques Maritain
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are… — James Jeans
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This… — Bertrand Russell
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to… — William Whewell
The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew. — William Gilbert
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself. — Georges Cuvier

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