Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in… — Martin Rees
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any… — Henry David Thoreau
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,… — John Stuart Mill
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct… — John von Neumann
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to… — Bertrand Russell
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now… — Robert Hooke
Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even… — Stephen Jay Gould
Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer. — Heraclitus
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of… — David Hume
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity… — John Steinbeck
We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and… — John Dewey
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages… — Jacob Bronowski
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful… — Al Gore
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has… — Wolfgang Pauli
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about… — Werner Heisenberg
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner,… — William Stanley Jevons
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and… — Edwin Powell Hubble
Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were… — Johannes Kepler
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. — Tim Berners-Lee
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible. — Werner Heisenberg
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. — Samuel Johnson
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. — Jean Paul
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears. — Horace Mann

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