Experiments Quotes · Page 6

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

— Mark McKinnon

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

— Andrew Weil

Ever since I was little, I've always had a few science experiments going on.

— Leslie Dewan

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

— Andrew Hill

You can be sure that I won't experiment with right-wing terms.

— Martin Schulz

I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.

— Pierre Omidyar

I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.

— Olivia Wilde

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

— Enrico Fermi

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive,…

— Albert Claude

It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national…

— Bill Gates

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

— Friedrich Paneth

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

— Samuel Johnson

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

— Albert Ellis

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

— William Beveridge

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

— Steve Erickson

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

— Nate Silver

Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the…

— Steve Winwood

With all your power, ask the Lord for humility and brotherly love, because God freely gives His grace for love towards one's…

— Silouan the Athonite

It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive,…

— Elaine Equi

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for…

— Christa McAuliffe

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they…

— Edsger Dijkstra

The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on…

— Isla Fisher

Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning…

— Benjamin Stone

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment…

— Jared Diamond

I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby.…

— Amy Hempel

We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of…

— Ravi Zacharias

Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments,…

— Henry Jacob Bigelow

I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds…

— Robert Lanza

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his…

— Stephen Hawking

Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to…

— Peter Singer

I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down…

— Joseph Stiglitz

A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

— Erasmus Darwin

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

— Claude Bernard

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

— Denzel Washington

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

— Adam Smith

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

— Charles Fort

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

— Zooey Deschanel

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

— P. D. James

There is no right answer except to play and experiment.

— Jonathan Adler