"[...] observation is the mind's support in reasoning [...]" (Claude Bernard, "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine", 1865)
"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science." (Claude Bernard, "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine", 1865)
"Observation is a putting together of several results of sensation which are or are supposed to be connected with each other according to the law of causality, so that some represent causes and others their effects." (Thorvald N Thiele, "Theory of Observations", 1903)
"For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal." (Sir Arthur Eddington, "The Philosophy of Physical Science", 1939)
"[…] observation is not enough, and it seems to me that in science, as in the arts, there is very little worth having that does not require the exercise of intuition as well as of intelligence, the use of imagination as well as of information." (Kathleen Lonsdale, "Facts About Crystals", American Scientist Vol. 39 (4), 1951)
"Scientific observation is always a viewing of things through the refracting medium of a symbol system, and technological praxis is always handling of things in ways that some symbol system has dictated. Education in science and technology is essentially education on the symbol level." (Aldous L Huxley, "Essay", Daedalus, 1962)
"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." (Sir Peter B Medawar, Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought, 1969)
"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention." (Rudolf Arnheim, "Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order", 1974)
"For scientists, observation is the highest authority [...]." (Raymond S Nickerson, "Mathematical Reasoning: Patterns, Problems, Conjectures and Proofs", 2009)
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