Observation Quotes - Page 5

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

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

[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human beings, someone who doesn't actually live in the true sense of the word, but who consists rather of words and literature. In my view, that is, however, only half true. In a roundabout way through literature, which presupposes empathy and exact observation, he immerses himself again in the life of society; in a certain sense he comes back to it.

I blog; therefore, I am.

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.

I've only been three years in the industry - but I would say from my observations, my personal opinions, that the world in Hollywood and all the big movies has been built up as just white.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

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

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.