Observations Quotes
266 quotes by 232 authors
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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
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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
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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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
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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
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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
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
— Alexis Carrel
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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
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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
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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
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Observations always involve theory.
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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