Quotes About Observation

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.