Experiment Quotes

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There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment. — Leonardo da Vinci
There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be… — Christopher Hitchens
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can… — Thomas Kuhn
Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a… — Guglielmo Marconi
How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking… — Rumi
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an… — Pierre Omidyar
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums… — Nicholas D. Kristof
What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare… — Cesar Milstein
And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the… — Cesar Milstein
Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and will… — Barack Obama
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited. — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum… — Bernard d'Espagnat
...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in… — Thomas Sprat
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our… — Antoine Lavoisier
[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of observation… — Thomas George Bonney
Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment… — Koji Nakanishi

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