#observation

To a great mind, nothing is little. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed. ↗

— John Searle

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The source of all light is in the eye. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

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Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world. ↗

— Nancy Farmer

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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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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

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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

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In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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