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“In vain, therefore, should we pretend to determine any single event, or infer any cause or effect, without the assistance of observation and experience.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a...” David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The job of an artist is just not to forget.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.” G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“There is a wisdom in this; beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements. It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of...” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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