But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching. — Bill Peet Copy Share Image
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
In my totally unscientific yet enthusiastic survey of Communal Experiments Throughout American History, I've discovered that the thing most likely to break… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There was some sort of maze-learning experiment involved in my final grade and since I remember the rat who was my colleague… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers.… — T. Allen Lawson 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
“Although of course I am aware that it changes colour in a jar. But we know why, surely? The heavier melancholic elements… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in… — Brian May Copy Share Image
Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of people who are afraid to experiment with clothing because they're afraid to get judged or ridiculed. — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment. — Stacy London Copy Share Image
It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I love to experiment with fashion. A lot of my inspiration comes from my mom. She is fearless with fashion! I love… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image