Observation Quotes
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We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
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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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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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Observation... is the pitiless critic of theory; it detects weak points, and provokes reforms which may be the beginnings of discovery.
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Again and again, the key to a great discovery has been an unexpected observation.
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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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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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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.
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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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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.
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He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
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One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
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As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own attempts to live as the Redeemer would have us live, let us remember his instructing observations and their universal applications in literally all that we do: "If ye love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15) and "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
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To cultivate the faculty of observation must then be the first duty of those who would excel in any scientific pursuit, and to none is this study more necessary than to the student of medicine.
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When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific observations so as to explain the conflict, in the course of which they would make use of the concept of observation, or of some specification of that concept.
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Individually we can work on ourselves. By working on your own ego and developing truth, control, and an equitable inner dialogue, you individualize the spirit within you through the process of observation. If you work on yourself, the progress you make radiates invisibly to others, helping them and giving them courage, which also improves the global picture. After all-your ego is a part of the world ego, and as you control it, you lessen the overall influence of the world ego while expanding the presence of truth on our planet.
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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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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
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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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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
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One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make friends with it. Keep it on a leash when you need to, and let it run free when you feel that is appropriate. Train it as well as you can, and then accept its idiosyncrasies, but always remember that your pet is not you. Your pet has its own life, and just happens to be in an intimate relationship with you, whoever you may be, hiding there behind your personality.
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
