#observation

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

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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. ↗

— Richard Owen

#critical #degrees #had #him #his

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. ↗

— Will Rogers

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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. ↗

— Ellen Key

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No observational problem will not be solved by more data. ↗

— Vera Rubin

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[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. ↗

— Walter Scott

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