There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.
I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.
Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.
Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.
It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.
What you consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of your reactions to life. Your reactions reveal where you live psychologically; and where you live psychologically, determines how you live here in the outer visible world.
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation
The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.
Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.