Quotes About Observation

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).