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Image of John Archibald Wheeler
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.
- John Archibald Wheeler
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Image of Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.
- Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
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Image of Boris Sidis
Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.
- Boris Sidis
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Image of Ludwig Wittgenstein
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Image of Gregory Bateson
Multiple descriptions are better than one.
- Gregory Bateson
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Image of John Fowles
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
- John Fowles
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Image of Christopher Bollen
I feel that I'm solid at description.
- Christopher Bollen
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Image of Jane Austen
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
- Jane Austen
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Image of Gaston Bachelard
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
- Gaston Bachelard
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
The description is not the described.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Roland Barthes
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
- Roland Barthes
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