Top Observed Quotes
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
Talcott Parsons
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell
It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.
Michael Behe
Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.
Robert Barany
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
Talcott Parsons 
67% of people like this quote
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
61% of people like this quote
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell
60% of people like this quote
It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.
Michael Behe
59% of people like this quote
Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.
Robert Barany
58% of people like this quote
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
John Archibald Wheeler
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Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
J. William Fulbright
58% of people like this quote
There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.
Samuel Wilson
57% of people like this quote
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Arthur Conan Doyle
56% of people like this quote
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Stephen Leacock
56% of people like this quote
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