"We learn by observation, imitation and repetition."
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"Art demands constant observation."
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"A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole."
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"I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left."
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"Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions."
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"You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles."
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"Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker."
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"When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge."
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"One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis."
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"In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches."
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"Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science."
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"I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know."
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"Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look."
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"Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable."
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"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."
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"I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation."
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"The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it."
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"Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation."
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"Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning"
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"It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end."
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