Observation Quotes

I always notice flowers.

~ Andy Warhol

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

~ Chuck Klosterman

Observe your imperfections. Love them. Then move through them.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.

~ Olivia Sudjic

The extracellular genesis of cells in animals seemed to me, ever since the publication of the cell theory [of Schwann], just as unlikely as the spontaneous generation of organisms. These doubts produced my observations on the multiplication of blood cells by division in bird and mammalian embryos and on the division of muscle bundles in frog larvae. Since then I have continued these observations in frog larvae, where it is possible to follow the history of tissues back to segmentation.

~ Robert Remak

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

~ George Alec Effinger

I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.

~ Giovanni Arduino

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

~ Francis Beaumont

Those who are most sincere are also the most morally suspect, as well as being incapable of producing or appreciating wit.

~ Ian M. Banks

I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind.

~ Benny Bellamacina

If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.

~ Neal Stephenson

...[She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.

~ Tom Holt

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

~ Spike Lee

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.

~ Isaac Newton

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

~ Claude Bernard

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

~ Greg Graffin

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

~ Simon Newcomb

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

~ Henry Ford

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

~ George Bernard Shaw

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.

~ Franz Kafka

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

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

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

~ James Dobson

My Ph.D. thesis problem was to determine if the DNA content of rat tissues increased if there was B12 in the diet. This problem was suggested by my adviser based on the observation that thymine could replace vitamin B12 in a lactobacillus.

~ Irwin Rose

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

~ Henry James Sumner Maine

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

~ Stephen Lang

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

~ William Osler

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

~ Charles Grodin