“Dr. Shaun Murphy: I conducted observations, successfully interpreted them, and logged them. Dr. Aaron Glassman: Romance in a spreadsheet. I love it.”— Karen Struck, Lloyd Gilyard, Jr., Dr. Aaron Glassman, Richard Schiff, imdb.com
“The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“As in Geometry, the most natural way of beginning is from a Mathematical point; so is the same method in Observations and Natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive. We must first endevour to make letters, and draw single strokes true, before we venture to write whole Sentences, or to…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“For the Members of the Assembly having before their eys so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“When I write these notes, it is not to describe my own life. I am writing a study of the soul as I observe myself closely and use myself as an anatomical testing-ground. It would therefore be wrong to look on these notes as confessions.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it—or my observation of i…”— John Green, Hazel's Dad, amazon.com