Observation Quotes

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

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

Reality gets created through acts of observation

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

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

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

Observe all men, thyself most.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

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

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.