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• We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Wise, Reading, Successful

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• I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Two, Connections

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

  Ira Glass

  Trying, Want, Stuff

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• We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Missing, Research

  "Cargo Cult Science". Richard P. Feynman's Caltech commencement address (1974), as quoted in "'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!': Adventures of a Curious Character" edited by Ralph Leighton (p. 342), calteches.library.caltech.edu. 1985.

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• But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Democracy, Denial, Moments

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• It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.

  Victoria Moran

  New York, Animal, Cities

  "Veg and the City" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Interesting, Attention, Psychological

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• My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Generations, Intimacy, Relentless

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• The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Space, Vacuums, Modern

  Robert B. Laughlin (2008). “A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down”, p.100, Basic Books

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• Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Philosophy, Past, Important

  Liberal leadership convention, 1968.

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• I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Long, Heat, Program

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• The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Community, Poverty

  "Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics". Book by Charles Krauthammer, 2013.

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• We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

  Juan Felipe Herrera

  Style, Spices, Tradition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment with life.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Healthy, Body

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.

  Tom DeLonge

  Geometric Shapes, Brain, Energy

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• I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Errors, Perfect

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist Papers”, p.523, Penguin

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• How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Compassion, People

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Law, Data

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 279, 1989.

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• A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Mind, Purpose

  Bertrand Russell, Alasdair Urquhart, Albert C. Lewis (1994). “Foundations of Logic, 1903-05”, p.420, Psychology Press

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• I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.

  John Stuart Mill

  Way, Would Be, Wells

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.133, 谷月社

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• Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Trying, Heredity

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• When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol' man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Cancer, Kids, Men

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.19, Zondervan

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• Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

  Frank Oski

  Medicine, Feeding, Informed Consent

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• Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

  Johannes Kepler

  "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science". Book by Edwin Arthur Burtt, 1925.

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• No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.

  Louis Pasteur

  Errors, Parent, World

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" on April 7, 1864. "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, p. 142, archive.org. 1902.

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