Quotes About Observation

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

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

Science is practical philosophy.

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

By far the best proof is experience.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.