No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One of the deadliest issues is the nuclear radiation pouring from every nuclear power station in the world. With every atomic process… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking. — Richard King Copy Share Image
“Deviations from standard results are not failures, but opportunities for new questions to be asked and ideas to be tested.” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and… — Jeffrey Rosen 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
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“The concentration camps were a laboratory for the Nazis. They put the minorities and intellectuals in there because the general population wouldn't… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
I think there could be more experimentation if car companies didn't have to make such huge volumes. If you're making 300,000 vehicles,… — Charles Pelly Copy Share Image
“Meteorology . . . is quite as “scientific” as geology and far more so than archaeology—it actually makes more use of scientific… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
“Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing… — George Wald Copy Share Image