Experiments Quotes - Page 27

• The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Fashion, Yesterday, Today

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• The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.

  Ben Kingsley

  Numbers, Choices, Events

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• All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Past, Men, Life Is

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• The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Freedom, Ideas, Creative

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• Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Character, People, Decision

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• What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

  Natalia Makarova

  Tired, Want, Waste

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• Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

  Martin Rees

  Together, Atoms, Earth

  Martin J. Rees (2003). “Our final century: a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century - on Earth and beyond”, Vintage

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• Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.

  Trent Reznor

  Play, Piano, Discipline

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• One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Mind, Enquiry

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• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Data, Mind

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Fool, Made

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• Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.

  Roger Revelle

  Ocean, Past, Rocks

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• We must never lose sight of the fact that we must take part in the development, not only of ourselves but of all humanity... I want you to understand that there never was or has been or will be, in the minds of the founders, including myself, the thought of any reward any notice coming to us for this experiment in brotherly cooperation and comradeship, which we initiated and which has developed, not necessarily because of any efforts of ours, into one of the best regarded organizations in the Negro collegiate world.

  Jewel

  Sight, Organization, Effort

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• Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Men

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• I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Imagination, Satisfied

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• The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to the plants. . . . "You have nothing to fear," I would tell them. "You don't need your defensive thorns. I will protect you." Gradually the useful plant of the desert emerged in a thornless variety.

  Luther Burbank

  Love, Secret, Needs

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• I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.

  Walt Disney

  Stills, I Can

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• As a woman experiment and observe. Observe yourself as you go through a day. You will be amazed to discover the number and variety of things you do just on the physical level to control, or at least pass without being hassled.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Numbers, Enlightenment

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• Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

  Charles Colson

  Exercise, Political, Culture

  Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government”, p.273, Zondervan

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• I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.

  Iggy Pop

  Inspirational, Teenage, Kids

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• I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.

  Elizabeth Spelke

  Women, Design, Intuition

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• Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher says: Imagine what it does to your TEETH! So Coca-Cola was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to improve.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Couple, Humorous

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• Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.

  Tony Rothman

  Thinking, Opposites, Age

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• Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I wasn't acting from the motives people usually work from: to feel good, to have fun, to make something last.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Fun, Book, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

  Zinedine Zidane

  Hard Work, Two, Play

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