observation Quotes

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region,... ...

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.