For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour… — Edward Dowden Copy Share Image
It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat. — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean… — Jonathan Schooler Copy Share Image
I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
A bride should look at {everything} she possibly can...just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in… — John Ashworth Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state,… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you… — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.' — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature. — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses. — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
