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"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." »William Osler
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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination." »Denis Diderot
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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination." »Denis Diderot
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"For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure." »Sir Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science
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"For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature." »Cicero
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"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste." »Henry Ford
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"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." »Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind." »Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895
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"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." »Louis Pasteur
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"To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth." »Charles-Damian Boulogne
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"It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant
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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses." »Author Unknown
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"It is an observation no less just than common that there is no stronger test of a man?s real character than power and authority, exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latent vice." »Plutarch
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"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common." »Denis Diderot
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"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common." »Denis Diderot
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"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." »A. R. Orage
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"It is an old observation that wise men grow usually wiser as they grow older, and fools more foolish." »Wieland
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation." »Walter Winchell
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"There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it." »Samuel Johnson
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"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." »Edward Abbey
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"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." »The Buddha
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"From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review." »Isaac Asimov
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"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision." »John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
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"Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.?" »Hazlitt
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"If with a stranger thou discourse, first learn, By strictest observation, to discern If he be wiser than thyself, if so, Be dumb, and rather choose by him to know; But if thyself perchance the wiser be, Then do thou speak, that he may learn by thee." »Randolph
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