It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. – Henry Ford
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
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person. – Graham Chapman
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. – Goldwin Smith
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. – Isaac Newton
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation. – John Burroughs
The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. – Alice Munro
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. – Alexis Carrel
Modern science is predicated on ‘truths’ verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena. – Bruce Lipton
Chimps don’t have language. Humans actively instruct others about how things should be done. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation. – Frans de Waal
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. – George Bernard Shaw
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. – Edward Abbey
Flannery O’Connor’s brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation. – Floyd Skloot
I wouldn’t even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah. – Charles Grodin
High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton. – Carlo Rubbia
Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated. – Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate. – Martin Chalfie
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. – George Washington
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority. – Francis Crick
All through Latin America, there’s sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it’s qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar. – Noam Chomsky
Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation. – John Buford
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed. – John Searle
The skylines of Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, some 40 miles away, can be seen from the eight observation areas of the Seagram Tower. – Joan Lingard
My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation. – Jonathan Winters
