It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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
If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without… — Richard P. Feynman 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
With all your power, ask the Lord for humility and brotherly love, because God freely gives His grace for love towards one's… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but… — Maya Deren Copy Share Image
When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or,… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I thought that I had found something new. But then I convinced myself that the Abbot Gregor Mendel in Brünn, had, during… — Carl Correns Copy Share Image
What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive,… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning… — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science… — Nathan Seiberg 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads… — Kate Braverman 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