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Observation Quotes

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.

Law Observation Human Ability Track

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

Jonathan Winters

Comedy Observation Common Paintings

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

Thomas Sydenham

I Am Medicine Observation Disease

My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.

James Wolfensohn

Knowledge People Observation Little

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Knowledge World Say Observation Room

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

Science Problem Observation Analysis

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Great Space Observation True Matter

I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

Fear Chance Observation Become Same

If you were to build a wall from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, you would still have to back that wall up with patrolling by human beings, sensors, observation devices.

You Back Wall Observation Build Up

Learning about and from your customers isn't always easy and requires a commitment to continual observation.

Learning Commitment Easy Observation

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

Now Observation Way Individual

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

Children Time Observation More Same

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

Observation Authority Experiment

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

Leadership Women Waiting Observation

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

Daily Effort Observation More Him

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

Life Back Observation Beginnings Far

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

Observation Matter Minds Divided May

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

Business You News Observation Give

Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

Feel Observation Admire She Stage

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Education Experience Observation More

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Thinking Observation Invention Also

Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation.

Truth Experience Reality Observation

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Richard P. Feynman

Past Result Observation Become Real

People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work for everyone, and that everyone has the same aptitude and appetite for forming habits, but from my observation, that's not true.

Work People Observation True Will

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