Experiments Quotes · Page 7

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

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

— Zooey Deschanel

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Andrew Hill

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

— Leslie Dewan

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

— Martin Schulz

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

— Olivia Wilde

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge,…

— John Forbes Nash

The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

— Eric Ries

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

— William Dobell

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

— Denzel Washington

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll…

— Dan Harmon

Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of…

— Stefan Themerson

We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever…

— Bert McCracken

[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

All of my early images were really visual experiments to me. They were attempts to answer unasked questions like, what happens if…

— Nancy Burson

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

— Charles Baudelaire

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500…

— Fritjof Capra

At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment…

— Mark Lynas

“Although of course I am aware that it changes colour in a jar. But we know why, surely? The heavier melancholic elements…

— Iain Pears

I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies];…

— Alfred Binet

Consequential strangers help us stretch beyond the relatively rigid boxes that the people who have known us the longest - our family…

— Melinda Blau

... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to…

— Alfred Hitchcock

My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and…

— Albert Einstein

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.…

— Arthur Balfour

The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Pierre Omidyar

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

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

— Enrico Fermi

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

— Nhat Hanh

I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.

— Louis Pasteur

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.

— Louis Pasteur

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

— William Ralph Inge