Observation Quote by Edwin Powell Hubble Download Open image “Observation always involves theory.” — Edwin Powell Hubble ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Observation Theory
Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose.… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed. — Norwood Russell Hanson Copy Share Image
“Science is progressive and self-correcting: no significantly erroneous conclusions or false hypotheses can be sustained for long, as newer observations will ultimately knock down… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows,… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors. — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
“The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
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