Observed Quotes

606 quotes by 476 authors

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking… — Frederic Joliot-Curie
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far… — Augustus De Morgan
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. — Odilon Redon
Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open… — Unknown Author
It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure… — Peter van Inwagen
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere… — Susanna Wesley
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to… — Swami Vivekananda
Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are… — Fulton J. Sheen
The observer is the observed. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and… — Thomas Jefferson
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more… — Galen Rowell
Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be… — Pieter Zeeman
During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a… — Jose Raul Capablanca
I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity… — David Hurn
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is… — Alexander Hamilton
There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to… — Olaus Murie
Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a… — John Arlott
For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become… — Bruce Schneier

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