Observation Quotes
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It's not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.
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The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.
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Observation is an old man's memory.
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Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm actually doing it, it just rises up. But everything I do is more about curiosity and investigation than it is about performance.
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I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.
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Somebody once observed - and the observation did him credit, whoever he was -that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping.
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In collecting evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it; viz. from observation on medical the living subject; from examination of the dead; and from experiments upon living animals.
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It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin. Superficially, that would suggest that conservatives take a more understanding and indulgent view of individual lapses, while liberals take a more harshly judgmental one. In fact, we know, quite the opposite is the case.
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To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
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To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
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I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
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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.
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It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.
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My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
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One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
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Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
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Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... When spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.
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We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.
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Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.
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By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.
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Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.
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Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
