Observations Quotes

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The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own… — Nicholson Baker
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking. — Helene Deutsch
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be… — Michael Behe
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world… — Michael Behe
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of… — Robert Hooke
The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something… — Ray Dalio
I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present. — Bill Kurtis
Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into… — Dan Rather
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are… — Jane Smiley
I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have… — Jane Goodall
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that… — Richard Rosen
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people. — Jose Padilha
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that… — Jose Padilha
Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because it… — Henry Lipson
From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason I can not… — Derek R. Audette
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life… — Charles Kingsley
In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him. — Alexis Denisof
While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations. — Aristotle
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. — Isaac Watts
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and… — Madame de Stael

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