Experiments Quotes · Page 19

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

— George Santayana

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

— Bill Gaede

Sales is an experiment - there's no right or wrong, just varying degrees of effectiveness. Our job is to constantly seek ways…

— Jill Konrath

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I…

— Moby

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

— Matt Blunt

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

— Anthony Romero

In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make…

— Leo Buscaglia

I know what I want. I try and convey that at the beginning and set that out, but within those parameters, I'm…

— Dan Mazer

I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a…

— Abel Korzeniowski

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a…

— Albert Einstein

Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what…

— Otto Robert Frisch

I'm working on one of the projects at a time and I'm the zone of that project. I'm not saying there's anything…

— Bradford Cox

The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation…

— Derek Barton

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world -…

— John Desmond Bernal

When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks,…

— Louis Pasteur

When you live in Israel, there are restrictions which come from budget definitely. I came to the point where I had shot…

— Dror Moreh

Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless…

— Sam Lipsyte

Although no explanation can be expected to be satisfactory, it remains a possibility among others that Mendel was deceived by some assistant…

— Ronald Fisher

[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the…

— Jonah Lehrer

We must never lose sight of the fact that we must take part in the development, not only of ourselves but of…

— Jewel

I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for…

— Christiaan Barnard

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

— Deborah Harkness

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

— Justus von Liebig

The total freedom means that you're enjoying what you're doing and you're involved in what you're doing, and that gives you the…

— Jamie Hewlett

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

— Lisa Randall

In films, we tend to come up with something new all the time. Challenges and experiments are new at every stage.

— Sreenivasan

I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.

— Joe Wright

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

— Anonymous

“Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.”

— Frank Oski

...what I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away...

— Tom Brokaw

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

— Samuel Johnson

You can't have experiments that aren't truthful. You can't lie about equations. Shouldn't be lying in football. That's a message that we…

— Jim Harbaugh

Just as thought experiments can't show that vitalism is true (or that it is false), they also can't show that dualism is…

— Elliott Sober

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

— Leland Stanford

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

— John Bolton

I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.

— Elizabeth Spelke

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So…

— Chris Ofili