Agnes Mary Clerke Quotes

Observation... is the pitiless critic of theory; it detects weak points, and provokes reforms which may be the beginnings of discovery.

Agnes Mary Clerke

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• But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • News
  • Observation

• I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Money
  • Discovery

• The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Moments
  • Discovery

• Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Community
  • Listen
  • Discovery

• But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Like
  • Discovery
  • Invention

• Sex is a discovery.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Sex
  • Discovery

• The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Broken
  • Down
  • Discovery

• It starts with campaign finance reform.

  

  Zack Space
  • Reform
  • Campaign
  • Finance

• Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

  

  Pete Waterman
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Looks

• It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Life
  • Experience
  • American

• Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Long
  • Search
  • Questions

• Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kiss

• [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Time
  • Power
  • Desire

• It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Reform

• When I went to the Association [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] I learned a few things by observation. One of the things that used to strike me was [Walter White] need to impress people, even just people who came into the office.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Office
  • Observation

• If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Listening
  • inspirational
  • Marketing

• At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

  

  Jack Roy
  • World
  • Hope
  • Wants

• We desperately need comprehensive immigration reform in this nation, and yes, comprehensive immigration reform proposals are nuanced and complicated, but you know what shouldn't be? Our capacity to see each other's humanity.

  

  Ayanna Pressley
  • Need
  • Immigration
  • Reform

• Either one or the other (analysis or synthesis) may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.

  

  Andre-Marie Ampere
  • Discovery
  • Analysis
  • Synthesis

• The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Virtue
  • Mathematics
  • Scientist

• I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something that you both admire - can often sharpen your thoughts about what you've read or seen and help you think more clearly about it.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Care
  • Helping

• You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Excited

• Observation... is the pitiless critic of theory; it detects weak points, and provokes reforms which may be the beginnings of discovery.

  

  Agnes Mary Clerke
  • Discovery
  • Observation
  • Reform