In my experience and observation, senior appointments are rarely based entirely on merit.

High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Sometimes I feel like distance helps observation.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

Observation is an old man's memory.