Observed Quotes

606 Observed quotes by 476 unique authors

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
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

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