Observations Quotes

266 quotes by 221 authors

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. — Sigmund Freud
I would teach the world that science is the best way to understand the world and that for any set of observations, there is only… — Lewis Wolpert
As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own attempts to live as the Redeemer would have us live, let… — Cecil O. Samuelson
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But… — Gaston Bachelard
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge. — Ronald Fisher
Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite… — Oliver Heaviside
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to… — Antoine Lavoisier
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of… — Claude Bernard
Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their… — Claude Bernard
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations,… — John Desmond Bernal
A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not… — Henry David Thoreau
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to… — Michel de Montaigne
The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of… — George Santayana
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations,… — James Bryant Conant
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led… — Richard Owen
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the… — Jerry Spinelli
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option. — Timothy McVeigh

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