Observation Quotes

Nobody is known in Islam who reached similar perfection in observing the stars and scrutinizing their motions.

Al-Battani

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

Andreas Vesalius

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Claude Bernard

A similar observation was made by Kiessling with yeast phosphorylase and led him to conclude that he had separated two enzymes, one concerned with glycogen synthesis, one with its breakdown.

Gerty Cori

You are urgently warned against allowing yourself to be influenced in any way by theories or by other preconceived notions in the observation of phenomena, the performance of analyses and other determinations.

Hermann Emil Fischer

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

Erwin Schrödinger

In the study of distribution now in progress here, the actual time devoted to the search for new variables is small, but thorough observation requires much time, while the discussion of results may be prolonged almost indefinitely.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society’s rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

RuPaul

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. Wisdom

Samuel Smile

A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life

Thomas Jefferson

Thе world is thе book оf women. Whatever knowledge they mау роѕѕеѕѕ is more commonly асԛuirеd bу оbѕеrvаtiоn thаn bу rеаding.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau