Experimentation Quotes - Page 10

• During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Simple, Discovery, Years

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Alternatives, Looks

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality and despair, have not prompted modern intellectuals to question or revise their dogma. They still think that it is daring, idealistic and unconventional to denounce the rich. They still believe that money is the root of all evil-except government money, which is the solution to all problems.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Believe, Thinking

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• [Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should be noted that the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation. Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.

  Ronald Fisher

  Order, Giving, Null

  "The Design of Experiments". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1935.

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• At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Genre Is, Challenges, Innovation

  Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks (2010). “The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.21, Writer's Digest Books

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• Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.

  Rick Perlstein

  Running, Military, Communication

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• When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

  Fred Astaire

  Trying, Experience, May

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• During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

  Carl Jung

  Animal, Vivisection, Medical

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• Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over time, the richer the cultural context in terms of providing multiple experimentation and creative competition, the more likely the successful survival of the society

  Douglass North

  Successful, Creative, Competition

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• ...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Animal, Mazes, Would Be

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Elizabeth Costello”, p.108, Random House

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• There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.

  Moby

  Sports, Animal, Abuse

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• Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Self, Discovery, Competition

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