We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by the camera, that you can't use the limitations or the transformation to have an observation that is a very subtle perception of the world.
Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.
Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.
Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such people to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.
No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.
You're always on duty because you're in a constant state of observation. That's one of the challenges of being a comedian. I think one of the other challenges is that, whether we like it or not, it's a profession that requires failure. It doesn't just encourage failure. It requires it because it's all trial and error. You need to know what doesn't work to know what works.
I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.
If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.