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Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
Truth in science is always determined from observational facts. -- David Douglass
No observational problem will not be solved by more data. -- Vera Rubin
I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives. -- Jim Gaffigan
A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself. -- Kacey Musgraves
I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap. -- Riz Ahmed
I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing. -- Richard Lewis
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. -- Laura Marling
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. -- Arthur Eddington
It was this weird confrontation of these two delicious flavors that got me consciously or subconsciously combining Lincoln and vampires as an observational in-joke with myself. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite! -- David Douglass
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that. -- Jeremiah P. Ostriker
The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page. -- Kunal Nayyar
After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented. -- Scott Aukerman
In terms of comedy, there was a Seinfeldian era of comedy that I love but got played out. Seinfeld was great, but then after him it was people acting like Seinfeld and making observations that we felt like we'd kind of heard before, and then you're seeing Seinfeldian comedy in commercials. Suddenly everything is observational funniness. -- Mike Birbiglia
I'm not one of those kind of people who does the observational 'Hey, don't you hate it when you're at the grocery store and the line's long and the cash register starts taking too long.' I don't really do that kind of stuff. I'm heavy on persona, and I do a lot of interacting with the audience. -- Judah Friedlander
When we developed the 'Seinfeld' show, we took a bet on Jerry Seinfeld, who was not a household name. But Jerry had a voice. He was appearing on 'Late Night', on 'The Tonight Show', had some commercials out there, his voice of observational comedy, looking at the world around him, that voice was really starting to come into its own. -- Warren Littlefield
There are strong reasons for believing that space goes on beyond the limits of our observational horizon. There are strong reasons because if you look in opposite directions, conditions are the same to within one part in 100,000. So if we are part of some finite structure then, if the gradient is so shallow, it is likely to go on much further. -- Martin Rees
I don't think there's really observational magic. -- Judd Apatow
A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself. -- Kacey Musgraves
There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales. -- Jeremiah P. Ostriker
I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic. -- Godfrey
Everyone has their personal topics. My comedy has always been very strong on observational humor, it stems from what I see every day in my life. -- Iliza Shlesinger
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures. -- James Jeans
When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon - the people in the cartoons are not making the joke. -- Robert Mankoff
The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that, you have much more observational humor. -- Robert Mankoff
Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for granted without having ever examined it. -- Paul Feyerabend
I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me. -- Brett Dennen
I'm trying to think if there was ever the Lenny Bruce-y, observational, George Carlin kind of magician: "You know what I hate is ..." I don't think that ever existed. -- Judd Apatow

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