Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.

Dutch Scientist

Clive Thompson

We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.

Canadian Journalist

Louis Theroux

It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.

British Director

John Strachan

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?

Canadian Clergyman

Bill Veeck

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.

American Businessman

Steven Pinker

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

Canadian Scientist

Felix Adler

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

German Educator

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

American Activist

Robert Bork

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

American Public Servant

Daniel Webster

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

American Statesman

Shows someone did something by themselves without any help, focusing on their independence.

Self-reliance Emphasized

Often used to commend someone's ability to do something tough without assistance.

Praise and Achievement

Implies that the task could be hard or unusual to do without help, so doing it 'unaided' is notable.

Possible Difficulty

Describes seeing or observing something directly, without technological help like telescopes or microscopes.

Natural Perception

Used to express the limitations of human senses without using tools or devices.

Limit of Human Sensory

Means something can be seen or experienced in its truest form, without any enhancements.

No Enhancements

 But we also know that a short time later, the same exact power plant looked like this. And at that time, of course, it was emitting zero tons of CO2. I mean, you can see that with the unaided human eye. But often, it's a little more complicated. And so we have started to work as a cluster of small NGOs

Gavin McCormick:...

 from my hand and once a baby did manage to grab a grain its mother wrenched open its jaws extracted the maize unaided herself

Unaided