Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's,… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypothesis. But man, because he has only one life… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment… — Jon Kabat-Zinn 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
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries.… — Fritz Haber Copy Share Image
I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my… — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
This is historically what happens whenever revolutionaries begin to take the oppression and suffering of their fellow beings seriously, whether human or… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm not so keen on people calling me an "experimental" writer is that it suggests the work is… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new… — George Porter Copy Share Image
My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task,… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives… — Jonathan Jakubowicz Copy Share Image