The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. — Irene Joliot-Curie Copy Share Image
Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion. — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge,… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure. — Raimon Panikkar Copy Share Image
One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I currently perform the most important political duties an American has the responsibility to perform - I experiment in self-government on a… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
I told my son, who's 11, "Look, I don't care if you curse - it's other people that care." So we tried… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie… — Lionel Fanthorpe Copy Share Image
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies];… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Consequential strangers help us stretch beyond the relatively rigid boxes that the people who have known us the longest - our family… — Melinda Blau Copy Share Image
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The President must be true to his word. He must keep his faith with the folks who elected him twice. In other… — Rick Scarborough Copy Share Image
I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Ever since I was little, I've always had a few science experiments going on. — Leslie Dewan Copy Share Image