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About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying…

— Charles Darwin

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“Now, we see what we are shown. We have gotten used to being shown no matter what, within or beyond the limited range of…

— Barbara Duden

“... there’s a common trick nature plays on its would-be investigators: resemblance, the human urge to map the unknown onto the already known, can…

— Thomas Levenson

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

— Dieter Roth

The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes…

— Sarah Parcak

Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the…

— Marcello Malpighi

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

— Tom Robbins

“How do the eyes see? I don’t think the scientists have a clue about that one. There is a science within science – that’s…

— Art Hochberg

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

— Susan Sontag

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

— Rudolf Arnheim