429 Quotes About Observation

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.