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• The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

  Paul Cezanne

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook". Book by Dorothy Kalins and Michael Anthony (p.221), www.esquire.com. 2013.

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• A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

  Joseph Addison

  House, Imperfection, Literature

  'The Spectator' no. 291, 2 February 1712.

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• 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

  Running, Writing, Ambition

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

  Stephen Hawking

  Forever, Expanding, Rate

  "10 Questions for Stephen Hawking". Time Magazine Interview, content.time.com. November 15, 2010.

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• 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

  Time, Nature, Science

  Robert Hooke (1906). “Extracts from Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon”

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• But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

  David Dinkins

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• To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

  Jean Rostand

  Eye, Artist, Inspire

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Giving, Feelings

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• He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  War, Men, Wish

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• ...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Separation, Phenomenon

  Werner Heisenberg (1990). “Across the frontiers”, Ox Bow Pr

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• Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

  Frances Wright

  Morality, Action, Process

  Frances Wright (1850). “A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum”, p.176

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• Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Science, Lasts

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.363, Princeton University Press

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• Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

  Harlow Shapley

  Astronomy, Theory, Cosmology

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• Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Looks, Subtle, Hard

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• Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Acquire

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.78

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• The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

  Walter Bagehot

  House, Political, Looks

  "The greatest obstacles to Lords reform sit in the Commons" by Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

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• Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Creativity, Artist, People

  "New York library buys personal archives of Naked Lunch author" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2006.

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• To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Matter, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.6, Routledge

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• To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

  Bayard Taylor

  People

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• The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Hands, Creating, Given

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

  Louis Pasteur

  Past, Mind, Favors

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• We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.

  Anne Bogart

  Artist, Order, Tasks

  Anne Bogart (2003). “A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre”, p.19, Routledge

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• You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

  David Gray

  Book, Ideas, People

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• The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That's where science starts.

  Bill Nye

  Philosophy, Thinking, Discovery

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• As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Data, Numbers

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