Experiments Quotes - Page 25

• Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Technology, Ideas

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• Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction.

  Francis William Aston

  Dream, Stars, Mean

  Nobel Lecture, 1922.

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• Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Opportunity, Long

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• [C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Years, Risk

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• My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

  Paloma Faith

  Bored, Desire, Attention

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• What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anything you shouldn't try. If it's terrible, who cares?

  Paul Feig

  Safe Environment, Trying, Directors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. May 05, 2011.

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• Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

  Hunter Hayes

  Second Chance, First Impression, Firsts

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• I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

  Felicity Jones

  Nice, Superhero, Actors

  "'Amazing Spider-man 2' Goes To The Grave" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

  Graham Joyce

  People, Novelists, Language

  "Don't confuse 'readability' with dumbing down" by Graham Joyce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.

  Peter Singer

  Stress, Animal, Order

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• The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Character, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Risk, Different, Culture

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• The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

  Chris Ofili

  Ideas, Body, Way

  "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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• It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Japan, America, Quality

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• Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

  Sigmar Polke

  Drawing, Sketchbooks, Not Sure

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• I'm at the age where I just want to experiment. You know, play a crime investigator one week, a pregnant girl one week, an angel of darkness another week. I don't want to define myself by any category, or age, or role.

  Leven Rambin

  Girl, Angel, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

  Regina Spektor

  Sound, Band, Records

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Light, Google, Taught

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• It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

  Criss Jami

  Struggle, Emotion, Popularity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.69, Criss Jami

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• I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Thinking, Way

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• The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.

  James Morcan

  Mean, Medical, Mindset

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• I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Girl, Fashion, Hair

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• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Jobs, Ebay, Hobbies

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

  Atul Gawande

  Aging, Failing

  "Atul Gawande: 'We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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