It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence to avoid wasting time and labour and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

If you must break the law do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s having observed some distortions up close but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

The more you observe politics the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections they want observers.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general for it helps to form a habit of peace and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols which observe him with familiar glances.

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

We are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits but not when it misses.