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Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds. -- Jack Herer
There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy. -- Martin Rees
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties. -- Paul Stamets
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. -- Alexis Carrel
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. -- Robert Lanza
The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable. -- Emily Greene Balch
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. -- Jerome Bruner
Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs. -- Aditi Shankardass
Race was thick in the O.J. Simpson case from the very beginning, but it wasn't evident. And I think the O.J. Simpson case revealed that there is subtle race, and there is sophisticated race, and there's evident and observable race. -- Michael Eric Dyson
The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort. -- Greg Graffin
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in. -- Mary Astell
If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here. -- Sean M. Carroll
Docility is the observable half of reason. -- George Santayana
The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision. -- Kurt GÃ¶del
A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe. -- Stephen Hawking
Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers. -- Francis Schaeffer
It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms. -- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love. -- Joyce Brothers
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems . -- Niels Bohr
I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos. -- Joan Didion
The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits. -- John Locke
It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation. -- Benjamin Franklin
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. -- Alexis Carrel
... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small measure have reflected matters of the Soul. -- Neale Donald Walsch
It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed. -- Alexander Pope
All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history. -- E. M. Forster
If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources. -- Jaron Lanier
... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe. -- Albert Einstein
What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred. -- Harold Jeffreys
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism. -- Susan Jacoby
We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you. -- Simon Singh

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