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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley
Best
Science
Sense
Logic
Observation
Merciless
Simply
Fallacy
Accurate
Common
Common Sense
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
Man
Old
Men
Every
Philosophy
Observation
He
Advertising
Behind
Wants
Much
Really
Based
Every Man
Two
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
Yukio Mishima
Truth
Projection
Become
Flower
Universe
Astronomical
Entire
Perceive
Observation
Lotus
Microscopic
May
Whereby
Agent
Means
Theory
Foundation
I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it.
Abby Lee Miller
Teacher
Good
Great
Good Teacher
Out
Observation
Picking
Wrong
Am
Fixing
Most of my work - including everything from my own comics to the covers I've drawn for 'The New Yorker' - is the result of taking some personal experience or observation and then fictionalizing it to a degree.
Adrian Tomine
Work
Experience
Result
Degree
Own
Everything
Drawn
Some
My Own
Observation
Taking
New
Most
Comics
Covers
Personal
Yorker
Personal Experience
New Yorker
Then
Including
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
Way
Some
Some Things
Seem
Only
Through
Observation
Feel
Know
Learned
Surely
Personal
Autobiographical
Stories
Things
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
Anne Sullivan
History
Humanity
World
Dark
Light
Point
Lift
Observation
Clear
Periods
Falls
Where
Certain
Suddenly
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
Arne Duncan
Feedback
Parents
Peers
Classroom
Student
Observation
Support
Teachers
Measures
Multiple
Based
Growth
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
Arthur Keith
Good
Nature
Men
Too
Our
Distinctions
Good Men
Conspicuous
Observation
Between
Discriminate
Escape
Senses
Whether
Races
Desire
Christians
I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do come from big families that usually, when you have a family fight, on the back end you come out better and stronger for it.
Ayanna Pressley
Family
You
Fight
Better
Stronger
Big
Back
Out
Has-Been
Only
Only Child
Observation
Come
Big Family
Been
End
Friends
Families
Child
Who
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
Bill Nye
Education
Nature
Respect
Science
Every
Universe
Our
Must
About
Observation
Sort
Because
Real
Dollars
Inference
Intended
Any
Tax
Tax Dollars
Process
Explanation
Teach
Used
Origin
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
Billy West
You
Power
Kind
Some
Observation
Observer
Almost
Like
Trained
For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed.
Brian Schatz
Time
Month
Several
Melted
More
Observation
Days
Sheet
Surface
Cover
Years
July
Than
Greenland
Any
Estimated
Ice
Satellite
Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
Bruce Lipton
Science
World
Physical
Physical World
Through
Observation
Verified
Truths
Accurate
Modern
Modern Science
Measurements
Phenomena
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
Hundreds
States
Generally
Observation
Unstable
New
Particle
Particles
Led
Just
Which
Many
Appear
Fundamental
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
Donna Tartt
Time
More
Emotional
Adult
Observation
Sharp
Sharper
Primitive
Powers
Reactions
Very
Than
Same
Same Time
Children
Much
Murky
If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.
Edith Widder
Good
Animals
Ocean
Other
Constantly
Seeking
Observation
Environment
New
Stewards
Understand
How
Methods
Improved
Interact
Which
Exploration
Means
Each
Lives
Need
We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
Elias Hicks
God
Man
People
Looking
Precepts
Assured
Kingdom
Only
Observation
He
Observed
Outward
Cometh
Learn
Known
Were
Left
Them
Reason
Jesus
Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.
Elif Batuman
Memory
Writing
Think
Imagination
Observation
Part
Nonfiction
Dependent
Really
Actually
Things
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
Ellen Key
Liberty
Duty
Pledge
Observation
Itself
Fidelity
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
Erwin Schrodinger
Physics
Measurement
Experiment
Preparation
Analysis
Atomic
Entities
Only
Observation
Between
Particles
Isolated
Understood
Subsequent
Process
Meaning
Shown
Careful
He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
Eugen Herrigel
Daily
Following
More
Inspiration
Through
Observation
He
Come
Also
Him
Without
Meticulous
Effort
Any
Capable
Technical
Letting
Grows
Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
Floyd Skloot
Life
Marked
Slim
Output
Observation
Piercing
Powers
Nonetheless
Were
Brief
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon
Wisdom
Best
Health
Good
Man
Hurt
Own
Rules
Finds
Observation
He
Beyond
Preserve
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
Minority
Possibility
Would
Triplets
More
Unclear
Observation
However
Ambiguous
Expect
Than
May
Acid
Unfortunate
Which
Meaning
Meaning Of
Certainly
Amino
Amino Acid
Code
Raises
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
Knowledge
World
Say
Scanty
Outer
Outer World
Observation
Self-Knowledge
How
Room
Compared
Thing
Inner
Inner World
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