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Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

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

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

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

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

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

Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

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.

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

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