429 Quotes About Observation

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.

There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.

Silence is more than observation; it informs from non-observation.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives?

Every eye makes its own perception.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.