Experiments Quotes · Page 12

Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live…

— Camille Paglia

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are…

— Francis Collins

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

— Eric Allin Cornell

The total freedom means that you're enjoying what you're doing and you're involved in what you're doing, and that gives you the…

— Jamie Hewlett

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

— Lisa Randall

In films, we tend to come up with something new all the time. Challenges and experiments are new at every stage.

— Sreenivasan

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

— Deborah Harkness

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

— Justus von Liebig

Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good…

— Jerry Saltz

I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most…

— Lawrence Lessig

The data on which philosophical theorizing is based are rather the intuited contents themselves, concerning the various thought experiments. At least that…

— Ernest Sosa

Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas…

— Dan Jenkins

[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well,…

— Ronald Reagan

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the…

— Terence McKenna

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said,…

— Charles Baudelaire

I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer…

— Thomas Beddoes

[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...)…

— Anthony Giddens

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine;…

— Anonymous

The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments.…

— Werner Heisenberg

It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship…

— Joseph Story

I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind…

— Danielle Dutton

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,…

— Louisa May Alcott

In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to…

— John P. Kotter

In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make…

— Leo Buscaglia

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

— Matt Blunt

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

— Anthony Romero

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There are endless ways to enhance beauty. You never know when you will find your perfect lipstick - unless you keep experimenting.

— Pat McGrath

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

— Brent Scowcroft

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So…

— Chris Ofili

I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.

— Elizabeth Spelke

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

— John Bolton

Just as thought experiments can't show that vitalism is true (or that it is false), they also can't show that dualism is…

— Elliott Sober

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

— Leland Stanford

You can't have experiments that aren't truthful. You can't lie about equations. Shouldn't be lying in football. That's a message that we…

— Jim Harbaugh

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

— Samuel Johnson

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

— Anonymous

“Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.”

— Frank Oski

...what I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away...

— Tom Brokaw