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Observations always involve theory. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it. -- Pascual Jordan
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. -- Stephen Hawking
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. -- Phyllis Bottome
Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life. -- Samuel Pepys
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed. -- Ivan Illich
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things. -- Robert Hooke
You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. -- Mos Def
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. -- Vera Rubin
I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. -- T. J. Miller
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. -- Alexis Carrel
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science. -- Auguste Comte
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. -- William Hazlitt
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. -- Ansel Adams
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question. -- Talcott Parsons
The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations. -- Henry Villard
I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it. -- Greg Behrendt
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics. -- Stephen Hawking
Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon of our observations. -- Martin Rees
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family. -- Bill Bryson
My observations are not bread crumbs. They do not dissolve. They are on record, on film printed in books, and found on the Internet. I am happy to share them. For this I was born. -- Bill Cosby
While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success. -- Wendy Kopp
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. -- Naomi Wolf
I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little. -- David Chalmers
And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure. -- Hjalmar Schacht
The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. -- William Bartram
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. -- Mos Def
The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution. -- Glenn Greenwald
To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. -- Lee De Forest
I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations. -- Hillary Clinton
One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates. -- Rob Lowe
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers. -- Abraham Verghese
Theories crumble, but good observations never fade. -- Harlow Shapley
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud
Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. -- Ellen Hopkins
Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable. -- Carl Sagan
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. -- Jean Paul
There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I love making observations. That one is a classic example. -- Stephen Colbert
Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with. -- Mark Twain
A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations. -- Karl Popper
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. -- Heinz von Foerster
I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present. -- Bill Kurtis
I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone. -- Gail Carriger
We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations. -- Augustus De Morgan
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. -- David Douglass
I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know. -- Stephen Jay Gould
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. -- Alexander Pope
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations. -- Andreas Vesalius
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. -- Stephen Hawking
Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe. -- Maria Mitchell
I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important. -- Tove Jansson
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people. -- Jose Padilha
The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity. -- Archibald Hill
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations. -- J. D. Salinger
I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge. -- Charles Hard Townes
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors. -- Costa Georgiadis
I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations. -- George Carlin
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option. -- Timothy McVeigh
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it. -- Margaret Atwood
On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations... -- David Douglass
In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films. -- Alexander Payne
Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations. -- PZ Myers
We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable. -- Peter J. Carroll
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses. -- Galileo Galilei
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men, -- James Smithson
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all. -- Daniel Kahneman
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. -- M. King Hubbert
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition! -- RuPaul
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others -- Jacqueline Carey
I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations. -- Judith Anderson
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge. -- Ronald Fisher
Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability. -- Robert Lanza
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding. -- Bruce Lee
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. -- Isaac Watts
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding. -- Jose Ferreira
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. -- Virginia Woolf
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations. -- Brian Greene
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations. -- Richard P. Feynman
You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something. -- Kary Mullis
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations. -- Julius Shulman
Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science. -- Halton Arp
We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth. -- Hippocrates
It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true. -- Masaru Emoto
In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it. -- Buzz Aldrin
Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. -- Jules Verne
The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations. -- Mindy Kaling
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking. -- Helene Deutsch
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form. -- Lily King
From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms. -- Robert Koch
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. -- George Berkeley
I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it. -- Paula Poundstone
I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body. -- Brene Brown
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak. -- Suzanne Curchod
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. -- Aristotle
To voice something you're feeling and put observations into words with another person who is totally present is a creative act embodying soul and love. -- Jean Shinoda Bolen
Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations. -- Ruth Hubbard
In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him. -- Alexis Denisof
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity. -- Donald Johanson
I carry some kind of consideration and weight and observations about what is going on in the world, but I don't go to execute it. -- Michal Rovner
Laboratory experiments, field observations and atmospheric modeling calculations have now established that chemical reactions occurring on PSC particles play a central role in polar ozone depletion. -- Mario J. Molina
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects. -- Jane Goodall
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did. -- Jack Adams
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy. -- George Bernard Shaw
We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations. -- Roy Spencer
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
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
From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations. -- Samuel Johnson
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get. -- James Randi
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. -- Richard Owen
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns. -- Michel de Montaigne
First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians. -- Ellen Muth
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations. -- Claude Bernard

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