Experiments Quotes - Page 17

• What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my mind in 3D, as a kind of construct. Then I do experiments with the image...sort of rotate it, and say, 'Well what'll happen if one does this?' And by the time I get up for breakfast I can usually go to the bench and make a string and sealing wax model that works straight off, because I've done most of the experiments already.

  James Lovelock

  Morning, Thinking, Imagination

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• Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, One Day, Principles

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• It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Teaching, Men

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10789, Aeterna Press

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• So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justify experiments on nonhuman animals we have to ask ourselves whether we are also prepared to allow experiments on human infants and retarded adults; and if we make a distinction between animals and these humans, on what basis can we do it, other than a bare-faced - and morally indefensible - preference for members of our own species?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Adults, Use

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

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• Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Slavery

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• Over half the people in the United States wear corrective lenses, and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more clearly - if they would only experiment with changing their ideas about vision.

  Jacob Liberman

  Ideas, People, Vision

  Jacob Liberman (2011). “Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight”, p.24, Harmony

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• No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

  Paul Dickson

  Success, Teaching, Making Mistakes

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• With iPad publishing, you can try new things, experiment, and even launch new magazines without the massive risk normally associated with print publishing. The future is digital, so there will be a digital version of everything we do going forward. There has to be. The cheese has been moved.

  Scott Kelby

  Ipads, Risk, Trying

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• I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

  Jay Mohr

  Baseball, Thinking, Years

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• Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear.

  Adam Thirlwell

  Real, Sarcasm, Space

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• At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety.

  Mark Lynas

  Safety, April, Enough

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• We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

  James A. Garfield

  Father, Intelligent, Government

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.142, e-artnow sro

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• The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.

  John Tyler

  Religious, Law, Presidential

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• Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution.

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Money, War, Historical

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• It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Country, Political, Risk

  New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann (dissenting opinion) (1932)

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• This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen.

  Jonathan Jakubowicz

  Reality, Class, Cities

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• Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.

  William Allen White

  Government, Democracy, Majority

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• We have a constantly-changing portfolio of social media experiments. The first time we tried applying social technologies in a customer service department it became the most productive department in the company.

  Sandy Carter

  Technology, Media, Firsts

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• Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.

  David Rockefeller

  Successful, Chinese Revolution, Community

  "From a China Traveler". www.nytimes.com. August 10, 1973.

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• The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be justly described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the world problems of tomorrow.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  America, Understanding, Historical

  "The Age of the Americas: An Address Delivered at the Parrish Memorial Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, September 6, 1942".

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• Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

  Walter Kirn

  Insightful, Fiction, Stories

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• One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have to meet the irregularities of the wind, when soaring in the air, can only be learnt by being in the air itself. . . . The only way which leads us to a quick development in human flight is a systematic and energetic practice in actual flying experiments.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Air, Wind, Practice

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• Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

  James Mattis

  Sick, Enemy, Democracy

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• See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

  Galileo Galilei

  Firsts, Glances, Shows

  Galileo Galilei (1914). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Ignorance, Creative, Way

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