Observable Quotes

We had known from some previous laboratory work that I had done that there was spectrum information observable in the ultraviolet. We can see a great deal of diversity in the ultraviolet. Now, we're trying to figure out what it all means. - Bruce Hapke

They may control one form of behavior, but the problem is employees become deviant in other behaviors that are less observable and less easy to control. - Timothy Judge

There wasn't any observable scientific or procedural reason for them to first decline and then further delay the decision... I had to make the inference this was a decision that was made on the basis of political pressure, and it seemed to me that was unacceptable. - Frank Davidoff

There was an observable extreme in market sentiment. - Steve Pearson

The process of star formation is obscured because it takes place in these dense molecular clouds, so it's not yet directly observable. Astrophysicists believe that magnetic fields play a strong role in regulating the star formation by affecting the shape of these molecular clouds. - Timothy Robishaw

The mechanism of evolution is real, is observable and is more than adequate to the task... Evolution tinkers, improvises and cobbles together new organs out of old parts. - Kenneth Miller

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable. - Emily Greene Balch

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past. - Ambrose Bierce