Quotes About Observation

#1. The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Barry Long

#2. A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

Ian Hacking

#3. Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

#4. By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Yukio Mishima

#5. I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification.

Greg Graffin

#6. Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Claude Bernard

#7. A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

Honore De Balzac

#8. A careful observation of ourselves would immensely simplify life, and would make many things much clearer to us.

Aimee Dostoyevsky

#9. Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Bruce Lipton

#10. You folks like TV, you watch a lot of TV? There's a show right here on CBS, it's a huge hit. It's called the "Mentalist." And it's about this guy who has a heightened sense of observation. It's miraculous; he's the only guy in the world who can tell the difference between Sarah Palin and Tina Fey.

David Letterman

#11. Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

Jeff Ross

#12. It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Isaac Newton

#13. I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

Lee Child

#14. Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"
An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

Margaret Mitchell

#15. Inventive man has invented nothing
nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

Dorothy Thompson

#16. RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Ambrose Bierce

#17. The creation of genius always seem like miracles, because they are, for the most part, crated far out of the reach of observation.

Homer

#18. That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Samuel Johnson

#19. I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.

George Carlin

#20. If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?

Judith Butler

#21. In your own case, from all that you have told me, it seems obvious that your faculty of observation and your peculiar facility for deduction are due to your own systematic training."

-John. Watson-

Arthur Conan Doyle

#22. Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.

Walker Evans

#23. For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

Arthur Eddington

#24. His life was not confined and the delight he took in this observation could not be explained by its suggestion of escape.

John Cheever

#25. A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.

Jose Bergamin

#26. My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace.

Ichabod Spencer

#27. The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.

Richard Arnold Epstein

#28. Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit ... They have to fit in context.

James J. Kilpatrick

#29. Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much mental power do you invest in observing those things?

Ilchi Lee

#30. Vimes' glare ran from face to face, causing most of the squad to do an immediate impression of the Floorboard and Ceiling Inspectors Synchronised Observation Team.

Terry Pratchett

#31. A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.

T.F. Hodge

#32. Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.

Justus Von Liebig

#33. That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?"
"There is only one girl I care to make swoon," he said. "The question is, does she?"
She smiled at him. "She does.

Cassandra Clare

#34. It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it's unrealistic to expect that they won't. So, if you want to be judged in a certain manner, be sure that your look and demeanor give that impression.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#35. Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ...

T. S. Eliot

#36. Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature ... Observation is considered the key to natural science.

Bridget Riley

#37. No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#38. Introduction to Amanda. - The equal measure of fear and desire her double-barrelled bust induced was plain to see. It might have been a mundane observation but it was something of an epiphany to Amanda just what it meant to be the only person in the room wearing a bra.

Francine Scott

#39. Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Bob Dylan

#40. We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.

Elias Hicks

#41. Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

Edmond De Goncourt

#42. From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Robert James Graves

#43. What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

Wade Davis

#44. Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Walter Winchell

#45. Secondly, I continued my education in a more important way,
through the observation of everyone around me,
because nothing is more important to learn in life than
the interaction of a human being with another human being.

Marcus Sedgwick

#46. Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Edward Abbey

#47. Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.

Ilchi Lee

#48. I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Bernard Baruch

#49. I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,

Charles Dickens

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

John Searle

#51. Observation is the best medium of learning,

Priya Kumar

#52. The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.

Sarah Palin

#53. There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

Dinesh D'Souza

#54. And here will apply an observation made before, that whatever is proper to each is naturally best and pleasantest to him: such then is to Man the life in accordance with pure Intellect (since this Principle is most truly Man), and if so, then it is also the happiest.

Aristotle.

#55. Observation: there was absolutely nothing to see on Venus. Conclusion: it must be covered with life.

Carl Sagan

#56. Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

Monte Irvin

#57. It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

Claude Monet

#58. It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Laurence Sterne

#59. She ignored my observation. This generally happens with me. Show me a woman, I sometimes say, and I will show you someone who is going to ignore my observations.

P.G. Wodehouse

#60. The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.

John Berger

#61. My Ph.D. thesis problem was to determine if the DNA content of rat tissues increased if there was B12 in the diet. This problem was suggested by my adviser based on the observation that thymine could replace vitamin B12 in a lactobacillus.

Irwin Rose

#62. There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

Robert Carlyle

#63. Observation is the telescope of human nature. It is the tele of watching distantly. But taking an action is the result of Self-regulation and interference. It is going beyond boundaries in aiming to achieve a considerable ambitions.

Mohammed Rasmi

#64. Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

William S. Burroughs

#65. Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#66. I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.

Vida Goldstein

#67. But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

David Dinkins

#68. The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#69. This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."

Michael Jackson

#70. I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

Thomas Sydenham

#71. The whole concept of sexual attraction had become a clinical observation of how other people were.

Kitty Thomas

#72. Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.

John Adams

#73. like physics before it," Woese wrote, "has moved to a level where the objects of interest and their interactions often cannot be perceived through direct observation." In

Bill Bryson

#74. There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation,

Karl Popper

#75. The most astonishing observation one makes today is that people surrender everything in the face of nothingness: their own judgment, their humanity, their neighbors. Where this fear is exploited without scruple, there are no limits to what can be achieved.[130]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#76. We are the Rainbow Generation,
the Light split into color due to the physicality of observation;
the One harmonious sound being distorted through differing notes...

Grace Gabriella Puskas

#77. The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.

Hugh Ross

#78. Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction
they see their objects always near, never in the horizon.

William Hazlitt

#79. The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Bruce Barton

#80. I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.

Jean Thompson

#81. All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

#82. Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.

Joseph Stiglitz

#83. It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#84. If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece. Line

Vladimir Nabokov

#85. Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

Eugene Delacroix

#86. Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.

Johan Norberg

#87. Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Samuel Richardson

#88. Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#89. We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

Asa Gray

#90. It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

George Gaylord Simpson

#91. They (teenage boys)don't really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Rob Lowe

#92. Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.

Rudolf Steiner

#93. The exception proves that the rule is wrong. That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.

Richard Feynman

#94. Life can seem awful and unfixable until the universe shifts a little and the observation point is altered, and then suddenly, everything seems more bearable.

Jasmine Warga

#95. Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

John Singer Sargent

#96. We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us

Sukant Ratnakar

#97. Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

Arnold Lobel

#98. Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

Joe Haldeman

#99. A curious observation is the uniform way that committees review curriculum for each field of study. Too often, authorities have a knee-jerk impulse to declare that 'all curriculum areas will be the same.' In fact, real and significant differences exist between fields of study.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#100. Well, she had her own sorry self, her own story, the snowflake of her life, but even as a child she had been unimpressed by the breathless adult observation that no two of these were exactly alike. In the first place, she had thought, how does anybody know that? And in the second place, so what?

Jincy Willett