“From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.” ShouldWholeStudyProgressEffectsStudentsOughtPeriodsDiseaseObservationWitnessSicknessPersevereCommencement Author:Robert James Graves
“Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period when Observation, Induction, and Deduction were first employed, its birth must be referred to that comparatively recent period when the mind, rejecting the primitive tendency to seek in supernatural agencies for an explanation of all external phenomena, endeavoured, by a systematic investigation of the phenomena themselves to discover their invariable order and connection.” IfsMindFirstsMayOrderBirthPeriodsConnectionsTendenciesObservationExplanationAgencyInvestigationPrimitiveEmployedSystematicRejectingDeductions Book:Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings Source: Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings
“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body.” PeopleLongBodyKidsFeltSunCrazyObjectsWindPeriodsWindowSeasonsSickObservationGrandfatherFillingMy GrandfatherCrazy PeopleFilling UpSick Kids Author:Kim Hyesoon
“I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesProcessPoetPeriodsMajorsPressureTinyObservationSufficientFragmentsEmergingSkillfulSplinters Author:Conrad Aiken