The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in… — Bernard d'Espagnat Copy Share Image
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars… — John Silber Copy Share Image
Although I’m known for my long, colorful locs, I still don’t take my hair too seriously. I experiment a lot, dyeing it… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's… — Ron Parker Copy Share Image
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or… — Mario Copy Share Image
I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft Copy Share Image
The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of… — Pearl Bailey Copy Share Image
Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to… — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
If you want to understand the nature of something, to find out the truth, that is one thing. If you want to… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the… — Roger Revelle Copy Share Image
Modeling is about illusion. It's a fantasy world where models play various roles. By featuring extreme looks, magazines show women how to… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Kids still like to laugh, kids still like the joy of learning. When you have a cool science experiment, I don't care… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
While you're making the film and working with the actors, if you want to have a little room to breathe and experiment… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
Yeah, it was always a low-budget passion project. It's my directing debut. I've always wanted to make an improv movie because I… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The data on which philosophical theorizing is based are rather the intuited contents themselves, concerning the various thought experiments. At least that… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Following rules is, of course, the reason the dog is man's best friend is because the dog follows rules, and they actually… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
