Charles Darwin Quotes About Observation

Quotes about: Observation

• I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

  Charles Darwin

  Education, Science, Observation

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.342, VM eBooks

• About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Men, Views

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.681, Broadview Press

• I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A good deal of scepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met with not a few men, who, I feel sure, have often thus been deterred from experiment or observations, which would have proved directly or indirectly serviceable .

  Charles Darwin

  Loss, Science, Men

  "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter".

• I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Science, Machines

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