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Letter "O" » observation
«To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.»
Author: Elliott Erwitt
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
interesting, observation, ordinary, photography
«When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
accepted, agree, dearest, illusions, Kepler, observation, precise, preferred, The Hard, uncomfortable
«The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Conversation,
Spirit
| Keywords:
observation, overturn, overturned, overturning
«The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
accurate, called, commonly, commonly called, cynicism, got, observation, power, The Power
«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.»
Author: William Feather
| Keywords:
observation
«To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ancient, ancient people, ascertain, ascertained, ascertaining, as a matter of fact, authorities, century, conception, consulting, existed, hardly, observation, obvious, seventeenth, seventeenth century
«The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
accurate, called, commonly, commonly called, cynicism, have-not, observation, The Power
«The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
absurd, bliss, dependence, everlasting, Ignorance is bliss, insanity, merits, mixture, mixtures, notion, observation, refutation, refutations, relieved, relieving, rewarded, unhappy
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