Quotes
Quotes about Observation
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more dif.
The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
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.
Reason, Observation, and Experienceâ the Holy Trinity of Science.
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.
Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. - My Friends the Senses.
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. - Essays and Aphorisms.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
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. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirit.
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.
