Observation Quotes
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.
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.
Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.
An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing
Sometimes it takes the better part of a lifetime to find out what your passion is, but in my observation, if you do, it might be the best part of your life.
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.
You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.
We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!
When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.
Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
