Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.
My own observation is: lovers don't surrender to each other, they surrender to something unknown that exists between them. They surrender to love - call it the 'god of love' - they both surrender to the god of love. Hence nobody's ego is fulfilled by your surrender; both the egos disappear in love.
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms. . . . On philosophical grounds too I cannot see any good reason for preferring the big bang idea. Indeed it seems to me in the philosophical sense to be a distinctly unsatisfactory notion, since it puts the basic assumption out of sight where it can never be challenged by a direct appeal to observation.
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.
We must look a long time before we can see
I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.
I'm one of the many people who has said that the Hillary Clinton we know in private was effective, strong, courageous, and funny. And the campaigner we saw was less so, more scripted. Many people have made that observation, and it was my observation, too, but I'm grateful for what she did.
Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.
I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.