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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy.
The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.
Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old observation based on human experience.
It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?
Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.
The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.
Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.
In acting, the basic tool is observation. Whenever you see something, you store it in your head, and when you come across a character that reminds you of that instance, you incorporate it.
If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.
Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.
The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.
Observation #8: Boys are icky. Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in a haz-mat team. Seriously.
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
I don't think anyone who's had a casual observation of the Trump administration will suggest that their priority is going to be environment, Indigenous and other things like that.
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
I'm not an expert on Islam, but I think there are lots of noble religions whose basic principles could stand considerably more observation in the world of business.
All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.
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.
Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.
The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.
I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.
Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation
The skylines of Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, some 40 miles away, can be seen from the eight observation areas of the Seagram Tower.
Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.
If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.
