Observed Quotes

606 quotes by 476 authors

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body… — Michael Shermer
I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No… — Isaac Asimov
I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a… — Dalai Lama
Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject,… — Rajneesh
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by… — James Madison
With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . . . [discussing the landed, merchant,… — Alexander Hamilton
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human… — William Bartram
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of… — Adolphe Quetelet
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions… — Alexis Carrel
There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example,… — Bat Masterson
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It… — Augustus De Morgan
Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look… — Unknown Author
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the… — Jeremiah P. Ostriker
The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that had never been… — Unknown Author
Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject… — Otto Robert Frisch
I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in… — Paula Modersohn-Becker
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. — Marcus Aurelius
I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved,… — William Herschel

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