Experimental Quotes
304 quotes by 259 authors
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The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
— Judith Guest
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Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing…
— Sylvia Plath
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The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
— Albert Einstein
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Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the…
— Deborah Harkness
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Fear can be one of the most destructive emotions. It is, of course, also very important, in that fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid…
— Helen Mirren
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At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her…
— John Green
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The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To…
— Albert Einstein
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A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on…
— Harlow Shapley
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Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics
— Werner Heisenberg
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To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or…
— Jerome Lejeune
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Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking. You can believe…
— Rajneesh
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The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.
— Alex Tabarrok
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The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.
— Sxip Shirey
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People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad ,and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we…
— Katie Lowes
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I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
— Lynn Shelton
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The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Who Wrote These Experimental Quotes
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