Top 77 Observational Quotes
#1. have taken the opportunity to update the book and include new theoretical and observational results obtained since the book was first published (on April Fools' Day, 1988). I have
Stephen Hawking
#2. No observational problem will not be solved by more data.
Vera Rubin
#3. The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.
James Jeans
#4. If we analyse the supernova data by assuming the Copernican principle is correct and get out something unphysical, I think we should start questioning the Copernican principle ... . Whatever our theoretical predilections, they will in the end have to give way to the observational evidence.
George F. R. Ellis
#5. I have taken the opportunity to update the book and include new theoretical and observational results obtained since the book was first published (on April Fools' Day, 1988).
Stephen Hawking
#6. Everyone has their personal topics. My comedy has always been very strong on observational humor, it stems from what I see every day in my life.
Iliza Shlesinger
#7. If there were events earlier than this time, then they could not affect what happens at the present time. Their existence can be ignored because it would have no observational consequences.
Stephen Hawking
#8. I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
Laura Marling
#9. I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.
Riz Ahmed
#10. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!
David Douglass
#11. It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
Arthur Eddington
#12. The majority of individuals view their surroundings with a minimal amount of observational effort. They are unaware of the rich tapestry of details that surrounds them, such as the subtle movement of a person's hand or foot that might betray his thoughts or intentions.
Joe Navarro
#13. Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.
Elizabeth Blackburn
#14. After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented.
Scott Aukerman
#15. I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.
Jim Gaffigan
#16. Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for granted without having ever examined it.
Paul Feyerabend
#17. If you spot anything, or you think of anything I haven't, tell me, won't you?" This was rather thrilling: Robin prided herself on her observational powers; they were one reason she had secretly cherished the childhood ambition that the large man beside her was living.
Robert Galbraith
#18. My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.
Chelsea Handler
#19. I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.
Brett Dennen
#20. the incisive observational powers of a female surgeon cutting out her own heart.
Patti Smith
#21. The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that, you have much more observational humor.
Robert Mankoff
#22. Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
#23. I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.
Richard Lewis
#24. It was this weird confrontation of these two delicious flavors that got me consciously or subconsciously combining Lincoln and vampires as an observational in-joke with myself.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#25. Strange, awkwardly written, and even shocking, it broke new ground in more than geographical and observational terms.
Linda Colley
#26. The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial ... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.
Clement Greenberg
#27. I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.
Lilly Singh
#28. I'm not one of those kind of people who does the observational 'Hey, don't you hate it when you're at the grocery store and the line's long and the cash register starts taking too long.' I don't really do that kind of stuff. I'm heavy on persona, and I do a lot of interacting with the audience.
Judah Friedlander
#29. It is striking that the observational search for extraterrestrial life began in the same generation as the invention of the telescope, and with the greatest theoretician of the age.
Carl Sagan
#30. When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon - the people in the cartoons are not making the joke.
Robert Mankoff
#31. I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.
Godfrey
#32. The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.
Kunal Nayyar
#33. A similar criticism arose in the guise of "reflexivity," the idea that the very act of observing another person's actions changes those actions, making observational methods intrinsically flawed.
Anonymous
#34. On the observational side, by far the most important development has been the measurement of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation by COBE (the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite)
Stephen Hawking
#35. Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
David Douglass
#36. I decided that, as a stand-up, I'd position myself as a cerebral, observational comic, making references to Camus and Kierkegaard. I wasn't so much concerned with getting laughs as I was with seeing audience members turn to each other at any given moment and say, "Exactly!
Martin Short
#37. Every comedian works differently. Some comedians might do just observational stuff and they don't do anything personal, and other people.. everything they do is personal and they don't do any observational stuff at all. There's no right or wrong, it's just that everybody picks their own approach.
Brian Regan
#38. A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
Kacey Musgraves
#39. There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
#40. The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan
#41. Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.
Dean Koontz
#42. The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
John Steinbeck
#43. It's not technically gossip if you start your sentence with "I'm really concerned about ," (fill in the name of the person you're not gossiping about).
Brian P. Cleary
#45. She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food.
Martin Amis
#46. Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.
Neal Stephenson
#47. Maude meant nothing that she said. She knew how pretty she looked in furs. She was a rattle, not understanding her own bnoise; but the scholar hung upon her words, and believed them inspired, and did not know they were murmurings from a shell.
Ernest G. Henham
#48. Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.
John Steinbeck
#50. I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.
Christopher Isherwood
#51. It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
James Baldwin
#52. Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on "Big Bang Theory" lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#53. Tenacity, in some an admirable quality, is no substitute for the ability to change, for what in one age might be considered tenacious in another would most certainly be called cowardly.
Michael Blumlein
#54. The discordant principals' duet is like the nocturnal emission of a cancerous horse tethered in its dolorous slumber to a barbed aluminum fence during an electrical storm.
Sophie McManus
#55. As music becomes less of a thing
a cylinder, a cassette, a disc
and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
David Byrne
#56. He cleared his throat, very carefully, to bring the stillness to a more bearable level without breaking the unwritten rule that governs both churches and freshly fallen blankets of snow.
Anna Mattaar
#57. Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
Bill Loguidice
#58. We live in a uniform civilization, within well-defined cultural models: furnishings, decorative elements, blankets, record player have all been chosen among a certain number of given possibilities. What can they reveal to you about what she is really like?
Italo Calvino
#59. Not only is love blind, it's a little hard of hearing.
Brian P. Cleary
#60. Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He was upright enough to wish for correction but too weak to enforce it upon himself.
Michael McDowell
#61. Norway ... looked to Roosevelt as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe ... It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king.
Edmund Morris
#62. As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.
Michelle M. Pillow
#63. Chances are, if we can't laugh at something, we can't think rationally about it.
Clay A. Johnson
#64. If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she'll still display it on her desk at work.
Brian P. Cleary
#66. Tuesdays are the worst. They are the spoiled leftovers of Mondays, repackaged with a new expiry date.
Sorin Suciu
#67. Mother Nature is a peculiar entity. On the one hand, she gives us everything that we need to live. On the other hand, she keeps trying to kill us.
S.J. Lewis
#68. The smartest man in the room doesn't visit many rooms.
Garrett McCoy
#69. When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.
Brian P. Cleary
#70. Lettie sighed - wisdom seems to be highly correlated with sighing.
Laura May
#71. The only ironic thing about that song is that it's called 'Ironic' and it is written by a woman who doesn't know what irony is. That's quite ironic when you think about it.
(on Alanis Morissette's 'Ironic')
Ed Byrne
#72. It's not what you're not sure of that gets you: It's when you just know it's okay, and you don't check.
S.J. Lewis
#73. Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, and then everything burst into flames.
Brian P. Cleary
#74. ...and I was reminded....of the everday boredom of a life in espionage. One is always waiting for someone who does not show up,for something that does not happen.
Charles McCarry
#75. A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?
I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.
Terry Pratchett
#76. Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. All
the best poets write in rhyme."
"Really?"
"Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare. You can't do better than that.
Shiela Jane
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