Observations Quotes

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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
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
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
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. — Jean Paul
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;… — William Stanley Jevons
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for… — Isaac Asimov
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but… — Karl Popper
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method… — Alfred Binet
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and… — G. H. Hardy
A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations. — Karl Popper
Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject conflicting… — Ian Stevenson
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or… — Joseph Addison
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what… — Aristotle
I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know. — Stephen Jay Gould
Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it. — Pascual Jordan
...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in… — Thomas Sprat
Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars,… — Lyman Spitzer
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories, up… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value.… — Tycho Brahe
From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the… — Tycho Brahe

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