Quotes About Observations

If measures are taken only at the micro level, analyzing the data at the micro level is a correct way to proceed, as long as one takes into account that observations within a macro-unit may be correlated. In

The essence of scientific knowledge is the capacity to avoid clinging to certainties and received worldviews, and instead be prepared to change these, repeatedly if need be, in light of our knowledge, observations, discussions, different ideas, and criticisms. The nature of scientific thought is critical and rebellious. It does not suffer a priori conclusions, reverence, or untouchable truths.

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.

I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

From my personal observations, the Spanish style of play, with a large number of passes, is somewhat similar to the Brazilian one.

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

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

Il apprit rapidement bien des choses, et généralisa beaucoup, de façon souvent erronée. On peut retrouver trace de ses conclusions hâtives dans les pages de l'Ouvrier malhabile. Il s'en tira cependant, à la manière des gens de son espèce, en présentant ses généralisations comme des essais.

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

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.

Growing up in bad neighborhoods, you see and experience a lot.

One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character of Dick Swiveller, Dickens provided P.G. Wodehouse with pretty much the whole of his oeuvre. In David Copperfield, David's bosses Spenlow and Jorkins are what must be the earliest fictional representations of good cop/bad cop.

All these observations fascinate us, and fill us with an intense desire to know more about the nature of these phenomena.

But the better you are at asking the right questions, engaging in the right observations, eliciting ideas and feedback through networking with the right people, and running experiments, the less likely you are to fail.

Accordingly, in the spring of 1951, Rhône-Poulenc distributed eighteen ampules of their novel compound for clinical testing, which meant something very different in those days from what it does in ours. Doctors "tested" a new drug in one of two ways: either by taking it first themselves and recording in a notebook their own responses, or by handing it to a small sample of patients and observing the effects.

Although Travels included Polo's experiences closer to home, enlivened with shrewd observations

On the other hand, in his book, The Enemy Within, Bobby Kennedy wrote about his experiences and observations as chief counsel for the McClellan Committee hearings on organized crime and labor unions, saying: "We saw and questioned some of the nation's most notorious gangsters and racketeers. But there was no group that better fits the prototype of the old Al Capone syndicate than Jimmy Hoffa and some of his chief lieutenants in and out of the union." Twentieth

Very often conditions are recorded as observable under thy fingers [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the human heart are observed.

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

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

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.