#observation

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

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I never forget things. I just don't observe them in the first place. ↗

— Bauvard

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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. ↗

— Claude Bernard

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It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

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The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. ↗

— William Feather

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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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

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That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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