Experience Quotes - Page 38

• When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The sweetness resides neither in the C, nor in the O, nor in the H; it resides in the pattern that emerges from their interaction. It is an emergent property. Moreover, strictly speaking, is not a property of the chemical bonds. It is a sensory experience that arises when the sugar molecules interact with the chemistry of our taste buds, which in turns causes a set of neurons to fire in a certain way. The experience of sweetness emerges from that neural activity.

  Fritjof Capra

  Sweet, Science, Fire

  David Diamond, Fritjof Capra (2007). “Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-based Dialogue”, p.169, Trafford Publishing

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• Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community must share in the course of a [scientific] revolution. Revolutions should be described not in terms of group experience but in terms of the varied experiences of individual group members. Indeed, that variety itself turns out to play an essential role in the evolution of scientific knowledge.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Knowledge, Science, Play

  Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Thomas S. Kuhn (1989). “Die Wissenschafts Philosophie Thomas S. Kuhns: Rekonstruktion und Grundlagenprobleme”

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• It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving Up, Knowledge, Science

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.349, Broadway Books

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• I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity; for knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  "Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature".

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• I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Two, Together

  "World Authors 1950 - 1970". Book by John Wakeman, 1975.

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• You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

  Rosalind Franklin

  Real, Science, Men

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• The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Independent, Science

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

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• The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiences [experiments] and then to proceed slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

  Isaac Newton

  Philosophy, Science, May

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• The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Winter, Science

  "A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 26, 1990.

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• Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Running, Strong, Science

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.48, MIT Press

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• For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

  Richard Courant

  Philosophy, Science, Sensual

  "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant, (p. xix), 1941.

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• The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Humans, Limitation

  Flannery O'Connor (2014). “Mystery and Manners”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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• As between mileage and experience choose experience.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Mileage

  Clifton Fadiman (1962). “Enter, conversing”

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• These things are sent to try us, but why me?

  Lynda Bellingham

  Trying, Why Me

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• He who can traverse the pit of darkness will emerge a stronger, more compassionate person.

  Martin Israel

  Darkness, Stronger, Pits

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• Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today.

  William V. Shannon

  May, Politics, Today

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• I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

  Cary Grant

  Self, Giving, Firsts

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• And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

  Jason Statham

  Travel, Discipline, Focus

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 6, 2003.

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• The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.

  Roberta Williams

  Travel, Husband, Adventure

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• There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory...everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Soul, Purpose

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.25, Penguin

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• The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with its cargo of atmospheric dust; and the flying balloon is but the infant's soap-bubble lightly laden and overgrown. But the Telescope, even in its most elementary form, embodies a novel and gigantic idea, without an analogue in nature, and without a prototype in experience

  John Timbs

  Nature, Science, Simple

  John Timbs (2012). “Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts”, p.212, BoD – Books on Demand

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• A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

  S. Parkes Cadman

  Inspirational, Upset, Littles

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• If there is something you choose to experience in your life, do not "want" it-choose it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Want, Conversations With God

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.169, Penguin

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• I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Thinking, Soul, Music Is

  "Director Matthew Vaughn talks Layer Cake and X-Men 3". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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• However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Safe, Difficult

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