We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A bride should look at {everything} she possibly can...just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean… — Jonathan Schooler Copy Share Image
The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will… — Ruth Hubbard Copy Share Image
The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Could some of the challenging behaviours that often partner autism begin as experiments on measuring human reactions? Are these children exploring boundaries… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
Many people who talk about the discovery method of teaching are really talking about arranging a lesson or an experiment so that… — Frank Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I was born in 1960, and space theory, especially in the last part of that time and going into the '70s, space… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex… — Elton John Copy Share Image
We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
LSD caused a lot of experimenting going on. And we're thinking, 'Wait a minute, what if we've got...' I always thought, 'What… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
There wasn't a lot of R&B cats doing songs at 120 beats per minute before 'Closer,' which I take full credit and… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We want to believe we are good, we are different, we are better, or we are superior. But this body of social-psychological… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
“In one department of his [Joseph Black's] lecture he exceeded any I have ever known, the neatness and unvarying success with which… — Henry Peter Brougham Copy Share Image
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)...… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image