Experiments Quotes · Page 16

Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the…

— Ben Burtt

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

— Jonathan Dee

To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.

— Moby

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

— Mason Cooley

My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new…

— Gjon Mili

The sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source.

— Graciela Chichilnisky

I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a…

— Judith Butler

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed…

— John Green

Using virtual world, a scientist in Japan can conduct an experiment using a special facility in California, watching the entire thing via…

— Annalee Newitz

I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because…

— Francis Collins

Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting…

— Steven Soderbergh

You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for…

— Charles Darwin

I think it is extremely important that the West support this experiment [of Tunisian democracy] with investment, with aid, with symbolic support,…

— Larry Diamond

Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's…

— Tom DeLonge

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some…

— Thomas Dolby

I remember desperately trying to convince my wife that what I was believing was real - that I was being followed, that…

— Scott Stapp

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that…

— Karl Popper

Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes.…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen.…

— Frances Hardinge

Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or…

— Elliott Sober

To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not…

— Martin Seligman

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record

— Johnny Winter

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

— Dennis Prager

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

— Erasmus Darwin

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

— Mike Huckabee

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

— Philip Zimbardo

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

— Eric Avery

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

— George Bernard Shaw

Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.

— Sharon Gannon

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be…

— Anonymous

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and…

— Dave Barry

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

— Hippocrates

A lot of animal experiments consider only commercial interests. We want to ban all animal experiments as soon as possible.

— Marianne Thieme

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

— G. Edward Griffin

We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions…

— Mark Twain