Quotes About Observation

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

Whenever you can, count.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?