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• Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

  David Cronenberg

  Mad, Labs, Life Is

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg and Chris Rodley, January 1, 1992.

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• A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Science, Made

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

  John Jay Chapman

  Focus, Magazines, Ratios

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

  Charles Darwin

  Motivational, Science, Theory Of Evolution

  "Got a problem? Our Evolutionary Agony Aunt can help" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2009.

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• Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Selfish, Sensual, Failing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1958). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Trying, Doe

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• I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Thinking, Scripture

  "Pale Blue Dot". Book by Carl Sagan (p. 43), 1994.

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• Life is too short not to experiment.

  Jamelia

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Life Being Short

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• The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

  Eric Schmidt

  Humanity, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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• Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

  H. G. Wells

  Truth, Lying, Men

  H. G. Wells (2000). “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, p.15, Book Tree

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

  Charles Ives

  Music, Inspiration

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• Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

  Steve Albini

  Doubt, Reason, Conventional Wisdom

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• Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I just want everyone else to. I certainly would not be lonely. It would be exciting never having to listen to another person again but just my own self droning on and on. That's why I write a blog. And I read it, too.

  Roseanne Barr

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

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• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  Orson Welles

  Accomplishment

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• An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

  Enrico Fermi

  Discovery, Predictions

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• Regard everything as an experiment.

  Corita Kent

  Regard

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• The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.

  Jack Canfield

  Law, Trying, Probability

  Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff, Janet Bray Attwood, Chris Attwood (2012). “Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life Now!”, p.7, Hierophant Publishing

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• It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Fun, Animal, Political

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• The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Justice, Independence, Vision

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• To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Life And Change, Make Things Happen

  "Here in Geoduck Junction" by Tom Robbins, archive.seattleweekly.com. October 9, 2006.

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• I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

  Nate Silver

  Thinking, Behavior, Should

  "NATE SILVER: As Tempting As It Would Be To 'Drop The Mic' And Leave A Winner, I'll Be Back In 2014 And 2016" by Walter Hickey, www.businessinsider.com. November 14, 2012.

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• If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Views, Years

  "The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

  Charles Darwin

  Real, Science, Animal

  "Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution".

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• When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something that might be called the 'graduate student syndrome'; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.

  Francis Crick

  Believe, Science, Discovery

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