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• I like to try anything... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Trying, Formulas

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• How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with] both parties, it's beyond belief.

  Lewis Black

  Real, Party, Long

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Wish, Demand, Facts

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

  Nancy Hale

  Artist, Color, Age

  Nancy Hale (1975). “Mary Cassatt”, Doubleday Books

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• The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Guy, Roles, Firsts

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Holiday, Epic, Hands

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• I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

  Mara Wilson

  Thinking, Trying, Might

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• You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's noisy - but for you it's fun, you're resting. You're actually doing experiments... Just tell your parents that they're experiments, and you want to become a scientist, and then they won't stop you from doing anything you want.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fun, Dirty, Parent

  "Neil Degrasse Tyson Responds To Six-Year-Old – 'How Can First Graders Help The Earth?'". Neil deGrasse Tyson's speech at the NDT lecture at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, lybio.net. November 14, 2014.

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• Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.

  Linda Evangelista

  Hair, Colour, Permanent

  "This much I know". Interview With Lucy Siegle, October 2, 2005.

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• The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Sports, Education

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations.

  Tim Brown

  Creativity, Opportunity, Thinking

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• The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Spiritual, Self

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• The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Mind, Next

  Bertrand Russell (2001). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.115, Psychology Press

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• From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Hard Work, Hands, Dawn

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1967). “The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings”

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• If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Government, America, Looks

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• In politics experiments means revolutions.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mean, Government, Revolution

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.505, Delphi Classics

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• One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.

  Skylar Grey

  Bored, Fans, Too Much

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• The Obama experiment has failed.

  John Thune

  "Thune Claims 'Obama Experiment Has Failed'". www.foxnews.com. October 23, 2010.

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• It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Would Be, Moral

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• The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

  Steve Stockman

  School, Law, Abiding

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• Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. What fails the test of empirical reality, as determined by observation and experiment, gets thrown out like yesterday's newspaper.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Stress, Reality, Play

  "War Is Peace: Can Science Fight Media Disinformation?". www.scientificamerican.com. December 1, 2009.

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• Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just "virtual reality".

  Martin Rees

  Real, Hands, Fields

  "Britain needs schools for science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.

  Martin Rees

  Responsibility, Technology, Ideas

  "Dark materials" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.

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• The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

  Dan Ariely

  Temptation, Failing, Shows

  "Why We Lie, Go To Prison And Eat Cake". Interview with Joanna Pearlstein, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

  Dan Ariely

  Data, Decision, Tools

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