Inference Quote by Harold Jeffreys

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed

— John Searle

Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided…

— Peter Medawar

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

— Bergen Evans

If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Observations are determined by the ability to fully perceive actually what exists rather that what is believed or desired to be real.”

— Steven Redhead

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

— Claude Bernard

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

— Albert Einstein

Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use. Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more…

— Joe Navarro

The hypotheses 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 belief that science proceeds from observation to theory is still so widely and so firmly held that my denial of it is often…

— Karl R. Popper

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

— Claude Bernard

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti