Quotes About Observation

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

Let the experiment be made.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

Perception defines everything.

I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences.

Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

Nature is a better scientist than any human can ever be.

Methodological naturalism is a "ground rule" of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify