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• Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their course and to experiment with them. "On earth," said Laplace, "we make phenomena vary by experiments; in the sky, we carefully define all the phenomena presented to us by celestial motion." Certain physicians call medicine a science of observations, because they wrongly think that experimentation is inapplicable to it.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Thinking, Sky

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

  Richard of Saint Victor

  Prayer, Inspiration, Able

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• We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Race, Self

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do it all the time because it becomes a little monotonous. So I like to find a challenge.

  Robert Ryman

  Challenges, Needs, Littles

  "Light and Music". ART21 interview, art21.org.

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• Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.

  Timothy Leary

  Ritual, Internals

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• In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself. If the culture you have is radically different from an experiment and take-risk culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make—and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

  John P. Kotter

  Smart, Intelligent, Two

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• Don’t be afraid to fail. Get out there and experiment and learn and fail and get a rate based on the experiences you have. Go for it and when you go for it you’ll learn what you’re capable of, what the potential is, where the opportunities are, but you can’t be afraid to fail because that’s when you learn.

  Michael Dell

  Motivational, Opportunity, Failing

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• As we move on into this so-called biotech revolution and we start producing more and more transgenic manipulations, we'll start seeing pieces of DNA interacting with each other in ways that are totally unpredictable I think this is probably the largest biological experiment humanity has ever entered into.

  Ignacio Chapela

  Moving, Thinking, Dna

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• I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws

  Alex Gaskarth

  Memories, Moments, Social

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• A bride should look at everything she possibly can...just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or glamorous or classical or whatever she desires to be on that particular day.

  Vera Wang

  Beautiful, Desire, Looks

  "Vera Wang’s Advice For Brides Shopping For A Wedding Dress". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.

  Edmund White

  Hate, Adventure, Self

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• We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck

  Philippa Perry

  Filters, Needs, Looks

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• Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

  Lisa Randall

  Consistency, Belief, Elegance

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• There is no right answer except to play and experiment.

  Jonathan Adler

  Play, Answers, Right Answers

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• How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

  Eudora Welty

  Art, Tree, Joy

  Eudora Welty (1962). “Three Papers on Fiction”

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• So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

  Rene Descartes

  Lying, Risk, Curiosity

  RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”

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• To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Stress, Speed, Theory

  Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.196, Harmony

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• I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.

  Olivia Wilde

  Hair, Color, Used

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Adventures in Beauty". Interview with Taylor Barringer, www.elle.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I didn’t just experiment with marijuana – if you know what I mean.

  James Carville

  Mean, Marijuana, Knows

  James Carville's speech to the students of Louisiana State University (LSU) at the Manship School of Communications' Holliday Forum, January 27, 2006.

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• One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Discovery, Law, Effort

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• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Work, Men, Discovery

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• If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Ecosystems, Giving

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• Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Healthy

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• Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Men, Discovery

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt I, Ch. 2, Sect. III

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• I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us. This freedom is the fundamental strength of our unique experiment in government. In the complex interplay of forces and considerations that go into the making of our laws and policies, its preservation must be a pervasive and dominant concern.

  Mario

  Believe, Unique, Law

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