Experiments Quotes - Page 34

• The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Running, Play, Creating

  "Science on stage: from profound theories to West End hits" by Marcus du Sautoy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2013.

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• I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

  Mitchel Resnick

  Believe, Opportunity, People

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• Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Careers, Media, Interesting

  "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin Can Help Cure Aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

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• Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of art. Yet The Eye and the Ear was done as a consciously designed experiment. Not every avant-garde dealt with experiments and not every experiment equalled avant-garde.

  Stefan Themerson

  Art, Eye, Exercise

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• Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.

  Sugata Mitra

  Children, School, Years

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• There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Moral Development, Civilization

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• I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Expression, Next Chapter, Tools

  "|Isaac Singer's Promised City". "City Journal", Summer 1997.

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• Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive

  Steve Aylett

  Dog, Punishment, Knowing

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• Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Aging, Imagine, Slow Down

  "How Do You Make An Elderly Worm Feel Young Again?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 22, 2015.

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• Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Different, Employee, Unpredictable

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• As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.

  Simon Armitage

  Song, Art, Two

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• The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Support, Pseudoscience, Blind

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated the earth. Inevitably, it would fall. Empires always did. But we were lucky, you said. We got to participate in the most fascinating social experiment ever attempted.

  Lionel Shriver

  Fall, United States, Lucky

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.37, Counterpoint Press

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• By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Responsibility, People, Earth

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• I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

  Joseph DeRisi

  School, Thinking, Junior High

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• Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

  Carl Sagan

  Eye, Errors, Zest

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• The American experiment is not a theocracy and does not establish an official religion, but the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are rooted in a Christian perspective of the nature of government and the nature of man. The challenge of the next millennium will be to preserve the American experiment by restoring its Christian perspective.

  William H. Pryor, Jr.

  Christian, Men, Perspective

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• I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things.

  John Slattery

  Fashion, Crazy, Proud

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The audience got jaded, they want a hit, they want a big success, and so you don't want to experiment because you say, well, I'll disappoint the audience, they may not like it, I better do something that I think is more commercial.

  Mel Brooks

  Thinking, May, Want

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• I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.

  Elton John

  Girl, Sex, School

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Perfect, Literature

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• The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

  Joseph Addison

  Trying, Different, Pieces

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the SECOND”, p.534

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• The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.

  John Dos Passos

  Men, Pie, Ice Cream

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• We are trying to live
  as if we were an experiment
  conducted by the future

  Marge Piercy

  Trying, Ifs

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.161, Knopf

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• [Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Retirement, Ends, Dangerous

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