Chimps don't have LANGUAGE. HUMANS actively instruct others about how THINGS should be DONE. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation.

How pathetically scanty my self-KNOWLEDGE is compared with, SAY, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner WORLD, as there is of the outer world.

In the end, they PARDONED me and packed me off to a HOME for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a SECOND time, once again with the OBSERVATION that I was subject to recall at any time.

The MATERIALS of the novelist must be REAL; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his ACTUAL observation.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from OBSERVATION of the works of GENIUS, whether of MAN or NATURE. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

It has been my OBSERVATION that most people get ahead during the TIME that OTHERS WASTE.

Those who have heard me SPEAK from time to time KNOW that quite OFTEN I cite the observation of that great American author, MARK Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

The skylines of Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, some 40 miles AWAY, can be seen from the eight OBSERVATION areas of the Seagram TOWER.

Naturalists, like POETS, are born and then MADE only by years of painstaking OBSERVATION.

I don't BILL myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a BELIEF system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. EVIDENCE is my guide. I RELY on OBSERVATION, experimentation and verification.

I have great HOPE and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts EXIST. We can all arrive at the same facts if we ENGAGE in the PROCESS of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a DEBATE over whether God does or doesn't exist.

It is a COMMON OBSERVATION, that the more solicitous any PEOPLE are about DRESS, the more EFFEMINATE they are.

I think that the expectation on parents has changed from giving your children SHELTER and love and support and GUIDANCE to this IDEA that observation and structure and sort of WATCHING them all the time - that that's what a good parent does.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have OBSERVED it and it is true ACCORDING to your OBSERVATION.