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The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be (Observations Quotes)
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim (Observations Quotes)
Men who have excessive faith in their theories... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat (Observations Quotes)
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity (Observations Quotes)
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks (Observations Quotes)
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I’m best equipped to do that (Observations Quotes)
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand (Observations Quotes)
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people (Observations Quotes)
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories (Observations Quotes)
While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations (Observations Quotes)
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men (Observations Quotes)
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality (Observations Quotes)
A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless? (Observations Quotes)
If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity (Observations Quotes)
The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent arrivals on a planet that is four and a half billion years old (Observations Quotes)
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science (Observations Quotes)
I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations (Observations Quotes)
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society’s rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition! (Observations Quotes)
In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films (Observations Quotes)
Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life (Observations Quotes)
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgment (Observations Quotes)
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns (Observations Quotes)
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker (Observations Quotes)
It doesn’t take many observations to think you’ve spotted a trend, and it’s probably not a trend at all (Observations Quotes)
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it (Observations Quotes)
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought (Observations Quotes)
Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely (Observations Quotes)
I’ve always felt you don’t have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There’s nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects (Observations Quotes)
When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories (Observations Quotes)
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge (Observations Quotes)