Experiments Quotes · Page 12

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal…

— Banesh Hoffmann

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

— William Beveridge

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

— Albert Ellis

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

— Steve Erickson

He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment…

— Colin Montgomerie

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

— Nate Silver

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

— Samuel Johnson

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

— Friedrich Paneth

The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as…

— John Joseph Griffin

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans…

— Frans de Waal

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the…

— Hermann Hesse

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries…

— Paul Rogat Loeb

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing…

— Julia Stiles

I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows…

— Grant Morrison

That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present…

— Jean Sylvain Bailly

The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge…

— Albert Einstein

Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear…

— Iyanla Vanzant

If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in…

— Ronald Fisher

“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded…

— Marcus du Sautoy

The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that…

— Hilary Kornblith

We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will…

— Jeff Bezos

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

— Brad Holland

How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you…

— Oliver $

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

— Brian Eno

I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and…

— Josh Hartnett

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

— Martin Rees

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

— Ernst Mach

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to…

— Peter M. Brant

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

— Pablo Picasso

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

— Richard Ernst

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

— Charles K. Kao

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts…

— Sigmar Polke

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour…

— Edward Dowden

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not…

— Carl Sagan