Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another… — Steve Squyres Copy Share Image
“Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature. Many of them don't have much to… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one,… — Balfour Stewart Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and… — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
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There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
How can we keep growing instead of staying stuck-perhaps because we are fearful of making a "wrong" decision? Herbert Otto nudges us… — Herbert Otto Gille Copy Share Image
You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds.… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans...… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
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The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all… — Joseph Lovering Copy Share Image
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them,… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication,… — Alex Gaskarth Copy Share Image
If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go,… — James Wan Copy Share Image
A lot of inspiration comes from the sounds that we are attracted to when we come across them in our experiments and… — Tim Gane Copy Share Image
In an experiment by Dr. Robert Emmons at the University of California–Davis, people who kept a ‘gratitude journal,’ a weekly record of… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
I congratulate you both on a fine piece of work which I am sure will ultimately prove of importance. I am personally… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
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