Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Charles Lamb

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

David Dinkins

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Barry Goldwater

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

Benjamin Disraeli

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Claude Bernard

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

Claude Bernard

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Ian Hacking

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

Bob Dylan

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

Daniel Tammet

I'm inconsistent because I'm human.

Thomas Cahill

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.