Top 445 Observations Quotes & Sayings

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had been made and when science hardly existed. This thesis is denied every day by those who have made accurate observations, who have long time observed nature and who have had the benefit from studying our musei's large and rich collections.

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified.

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

I am deeply impressed with the way dark matter has explained cosmological observations.

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value. Those that I took later until my 28th year [i.e., until 1574] I call juvenile and fairly serviceable. The third group, however, which I made at Uraniborg during approximately the last 21 years with the greatest care and with very accurate instruments at a more mature age, until I was fifty years of age, those I call the observations of my manhood, completely valid and absolutely certain, and this is my opinion of them.

I am a phenomenologist - I work on developing theoretical models that are constrained by observations.

Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits of time, and, by a few observations, to ascertain the history of this world, and the series of events which preceded the birth of the human race?

A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations.

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.

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

A lot of my writing and my detailing of scenes are based on my observations of life in Nagpur.

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

I love making observations. That one is a classic example.

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.

The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

I was very uneasy about going into cosmology because the experimental observations were so modest.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

With each passing year, experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water. In fact, observations suggest that the feedback is close to zero and may even be negative.

Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

Observations always involve theory.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.

I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.

Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject conflicting observations.....Nevertheless, the history of science shows that new observations and theories can eventually prevail.

The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.