Observation Quotes - Page 25

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Science, Machines

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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

  Creativity, Mean, Reflection

  John Hope Mason, Denis Diderot (1982). “The irresistible Diderot”

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• Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Parent, Support

  "Ask the Teachers" by Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for selling corn flakes or automobiles or for taking pimples out of Elizabeth Taylor's face, but it undermines the thing that photography is about, which is about observation and not about manipulation of images.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Mean, Thinking

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• The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

  William Feather

  Wise, Witty, Philosophy

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

  Paul Getty

  I Have Learned, Rhetoric, Can't Change

  "As I See it: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty". Book by Jean Paul Getty, Getty Publications, p. 106, 2003.

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• The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thinking, Authority, Appeals

  "\Rhetoric and Incommensurability". Book by Randy Allen Harris (p. 228), 2005.

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• It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, Trends

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• Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

  Arthur Keith

  Christian, Men, Race

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

  Robert Lanza

  Different, Physics, Range

  "What Is Death?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

  Spike Lee

  Dream, Parent, Has Beens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Personality, Catholic

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Running, Distance, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Mistake, Educational

  "Helen Keller: A Life". Book by Dorothy Herrmann, University of Chicago Press, p. 56, 1999.

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• Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

  David Mitchell

  Character, Balloons, Sometimes

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• I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

  Maria Mitchell

  Rely Upon, Elements, Saws

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

  Maria Mitchell

  Hard Work, Mean, Night

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• The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

  Alice Munro

  Stories, Way, I've Learned

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Oct 30, 2011

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• One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

  Alfred Nobel

  Differences, States, Exaggeration

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• Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.

  Bill Nye

  Real, Dollars, Inference

  "Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’ Talks Creationism Critique, Religion, Education". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.

  Sarah Palin

  Years, Office, Personality

  Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention, delivered 6 February 2010, Nashville, Tennessee

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• One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Book, Men, Fancy

  "First Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality: Fundamental Problems and Readings in Philosophy". Book by Andrew Bailey (p. 300), August 6, 2004.

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• Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

  Samuel Richardson

  Lays, Seems

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1806). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...”, p.155

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• Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

  Jeff Ross

  Want, Apologizing, Jokes

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