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606 quotes by 498 authors

It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain… — John Stuart Mill
In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers… — Martin Rees
If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to… — John Owen
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or… — Francis Bacon
Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the heart… — Marcello Malpighi
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer… — Henry David Thoreau
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to… — William Whewell
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct… — John von Neumann
We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity… — John Steinbeck
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible. — Werner Heisenberg
Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is capable of laughing.… — Rajneesh
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they… — Ayn Rand
After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things come if not… — John Calvin
The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it… — Camille Pissarro
Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the… — John Arbuthnot
It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,… — James Clerk Maxwell
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though… — Aristotle
...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not… — John French Sloan
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor… — Abraham Lincoln
Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed… — Dan Barker

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