Best 292 quotes in «observation quotes» category

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

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.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.

The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.

There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

We must look a long time before we can see

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.

You have to unzip your heart before you unzip your pants.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

a dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show us how to enjoy familiar environments with fresh new eyes.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

A sunset, almost formidable in its splendor, would be lingering in the fully exposed sky. Among its imperceptibly changing amassments, one could pick out brightly stained structural details of celestial organisms, or glowing slits in dark banks, or flat, ethereal beaches that looked like mirages of desert islands. I did not know then (as I know perfectly well now) what to do with such things—how to get rid of them, how to transform them into something that can be turned over to the reader in printed characters to have him cope with the blessed shiver—and this inability enhanced my oppression.

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

Anagrams are everywhere, especially when you’re waiting, ‘toilet’ can give ‘Eliott’ i just found out.

A Romantic builds everyday fulfillment through tenacious observation of daily life and an abundance of reliance on intuition. The result: An extraordinary life lived in ordinary days.

All this seeing. All this relentless taking in.

Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the Casimir effect, where forces between metal plates in empty space are modified by the presence of virtual particles. Thus virtual particles are indeed real and have observable effects that physicists have devised ways of measuring. Their properties and consequences are well established and well understood consequences of quantum mechanics.