Quotes About Observation

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is nonscientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

Every 'good' scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.

In the empirical sciences, which alone can furnish us with information about the world we live in, proofs do not occur, if we mean by 'proof' an argument which establishes once and for ever the truth of a theory.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

Conjecture or hypothesis must come before observation or perception: we have inborn expectations; we have latent inborn knowledge, in the form of latent expectations, to be activated by a stimuli to which we react as a rule while engaged in active exploration. All learning is a modification (it may be a refutation)of some prior knowledge and thus, in the last analysis, of some inborn knowledge.

I didn't go to the funeral of poetry. I stayed home and watched it on television.

The view from the apartment's one window was of another building's gray ferroconcrete wall, which was intermittently lit by the white neon flicker from the Ringer Hut noodle shop sign across the street. As

Heighten your awareness in all phases of your life. As you become more conscious of what you are feeling, what you are thinking, what you are saying and what you are doing, you will experience how heightened awareness facilitates results.

What are you looking for?" Wade asks, seeing me peer under his couch. "Huh?" I turn back to him. "Oh, uh…I'm just checking out the rest of the place." I suddenly feel Eva rustle around in her bag. When I look down, she peeks out at me with sleepy eyes and then lazily glances over at Wade. When she sees the Muppets hanging on the wall behind him, she cocks her head

Why are we doing the? I asked. Because looking aat a dead shark will tell us something about the ones that are still alive, Robin said.

Silence does not come," said Tadis. "It is always there. You are simply aware of it.

walking on boulevards and beaches, examining postcards, studying angles of light and shadow

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Boy Guide Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Thirteen Observation #1: Boys are unpredictable. This may not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Six Observation #1: Boys are moody. Like PMS moody. Observation #2: Boys are fickle. Like Tracy-Dale-Franklin-at-the-MAC-counter fickle. Observation #3: Boys are hard to read. As if we didn't know that already.

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Four Observation #1: Boys don't know when to keep it down.

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Eight Observation #1: Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time. Or maybe be the right person.

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Nine Observation #1: Boys suck.

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Entry Eleven Observation #1: Boys are vulnerable. Even the ones that seem like total, complete jerks. Observation #2: Boys don't know when to call a truce already. Especially the ones that seem like total, complete jerks.

Derek," I said after a moment, "have you ever noticed that women can be really stupid?" He put his arm around my shoulders. "And yet, they're generally smarter than men." "That's a sad, sad statement.

This place had been here long before him. It would go on sighing and breathing and being itself after he had gone, the land lapping on and on, watching, waiting, getting on with its own life.

Until a thing was seen, could it be said to exist? And if his eye through the telescope were the one that brought a certain star into existence, did not that make him a creator?

Every tree, every rock seemed to be watching.

Watching his sister be a mother was perhaps the greatest argument for marriage. And watching his niece spit up on her was perhaps the best argument against procreation.

a result, we are born pattern-spotters, seeing faces in the clouds, ghosts in the shadows, and mythical beasts in the stars. And we learn best when there are pictures to look at.