Observations Quotes

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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the… — Ansel Adams
The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the… — William Bartram
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through… — Jeff Bridges
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell… — Bill Bryson
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the… — Edmund Burke
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. — Alexis Carrel
I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply… — Hillary Clinton
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural… — Beverley Nichols
These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and… — Cesar Chavez
Observations always involve theory. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule… — Charles Babbage
Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of… — Charles Babbage
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.… — Isaac Newton
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the… — Francis Galton
I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do… — Joshua Reynolds
I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which… — Galileo Galilei
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

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