Observation Quotes

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. (Marcus Aurelius)
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. View quote
Edward Abbey
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation. View quote
Max Euwe
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works. View quote
Stephen Hawking
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. View quote
Walter Scott
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference. View quote
Paul Samuelson
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. View quote
Yukio Mishima
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. View quote
Joseph Addison
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. (Claude Bernard)
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. View quote
William Osler
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. View quote
Will Rogers
In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind. View quote
Louis Pasteur
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. View quote
Wallace Stevens
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed. View quote
John Searle
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. View quote
Francis Bacon
The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide. View quote
Raymond Williams
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. (Denis Diderot)
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave---that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium---or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave. View quote
Lawrence M. Krauss
The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. View quote
Charles Dickens
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation. View quote
Rudolf Steiner
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference. View quote
Richard Stone