Simple Observation Quotes

Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion.

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.