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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Any Experience Imagination Lack Need Observation One Other Supply Thing Three Time Two Writer
If I get to know somebody, I’ll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things.
RUSSELL WESTBROOK

Known Myself Observation Open
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
HIPPOCRATES

Body Disease Health Itself Learn Must Natural Observation Truth Turn
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
EMILE ZOLA

Liberal Myself Observation Smile Time
Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.
EMILE DURKHEIM

Enough Establishment Experiment Law Observation Willing
It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.
JEAN BAPTISTE LAMARCK

Determination Difference Observation Reproduction
The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.
ZHUGE LIANG

Army Care Enemy Loss Observation
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
JOHN BERGER

Blind Bottle Come Encounter Impulse Medicine Mountain Observation Soul
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

Construction Criticism Observation
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects.
ADAM RIESS

Dark Energy Movement Observation Reliable Scale Until
Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMES

Infinite Innocent Observation Pleasure
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Experiment Fundamental Observation
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
BARRY GOLDWATER

Disagree Observation
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHIN

Belief Denial Faith Observation Preserve
Those who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Excess Faith Ideas Observation Poor Theory
But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process
ISOCRATES

Creativity Fast Instruction Man Observation Process Rule
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
BENOIT MANDELBROT

Facts Observation Order Science
So far as I ever observed God’s dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.
JOHN BROWN

Deal Entertainment God Observation Scripture Soul Way Weird
From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho’s supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the Moon or above the Moon, but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself.
TYCHO BRAHE

Conclude Fiery Kind Meteor Observation Some Supernova Tycho
The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
BARRY LONG

Observation Truth Way
Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.
ANAXAGORAS

Important Mindset Observation Philosophy Science
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
AUGUSTE COMTE

Fact Goodness Intellectual Knowledge Observation
The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Finding Myself Observation Time
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
BILLY WEST

Kind Observation Observe
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value. Those that I took later until my 28th year [i.e., until 1574] I call juvenile and fairly serviceable.
TYCHO BRAHE

Century Done Leipzig Made Observation One Twenty Youth
Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory’s empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as issues in philosophy of logic and of language. With respect to modality.
BAS VAN FRAASSEN

Modality Nature Observation Philosophical Philosophy

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