The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw 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
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to… — Jeffrey Eugenides 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
Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no… — Lester Bowie Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office,… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
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
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion. — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the… — Vyacheslav Molotov Copy Share Image
There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
