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We must look a long time before we can see

Long, Looks, Observation

Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.163, Rowman & Littlefield

I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.

Way, Astute, Observation

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

Witty, People, Observation

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

Self, Observation, One Time

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Science, Observation, Experiments

Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt I, Sect. V

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Observation, Truism, Commonplace

Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Statistics, Observation, Application

'Dombey and Son' (1848) ch. 23 (Bunsby)

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

Education, Science, Observation

Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.342, VM eBooks

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Observation, Evidence, Extraordinary

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

Want, Hypothesis, Observation

The Natural History of Nonsense A Tale of a Tub

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.

Truth, Way, Observation

"Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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