As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“My dear nephew was only in his sixth year when I came to be detached from the family circle. But this did… — Caroline Lucretia Herschel Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I have the barn, it's just kind of like a studio. Almost all artists have la studio to work in, and that's… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even… — Hudson Gurney Copy Share Image
I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The American experiment, the United States in the past eight years [2008-2016] was not considered worthy of leading, because we had committed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, all life on earth - the only life we know - represents, for all its current variety, the results of a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage … One of the most remarkable features of this damage… — Arjun Makhijani Copy Share Image
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity...… — Hermann Minkowski Copy Share Image
In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT… — Robert Sutton Harrington Copy Share Image
Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion.… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)...… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes… — Nicholas Kurti Copy Share Image
Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
We want to believe we are good, we are different, we are better, or we are superior. But this body of social-psychological… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“In one department of his [Joseph Black's] lecture he exceeded any I have ever known, the neatness and unvarying success with which… — Henry Peter Brougham Copy Share Image
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image