Quotes About Observation

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.