Experiments Quotes - Page 40

• Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

  Samuel Johnson

  Heart, Successful, Cold

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1805). “Preface”, p.32

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• Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

  Arthur Eddington

  Believe, Results, Theory

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• I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mistake, Mean, Fool

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• ...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!

  Brian May

  Men, Thinking, Views

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• Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.

  Louis Pasteur

  Wings, Giving, Imagination

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• Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Littles, Too Much

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• You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Evil, Doe

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• It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is, the less we have to worry about its interpretation, about what it really means.

  Peter Medawar

  Mean, Thinking, Worry

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting.

  Richard Lewontin

  Butterfly, Unique, Long

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• Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Political, Democracy, Lasts

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1043, e-artnow

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• That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Opportunity, America

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• Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

  Seymour Papert

  Computer, Classroom, Absurd

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• Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Errors, Growth, Victory

  "If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules". Book by Chérie Carter-Scott, July 15, 1998.

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• I am in a space now where I can try anything; and with Pink Floyd we've always been in a space where we were able to try out anything. I think we were very young then and we were very keen to experiment and try things out. It seems to me that this sort of experimenting is like working yourself towards something and trying to find what you like and what you want.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Space, Trying

  Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. February 21, 2006.

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• I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.

  William Stafford

  Jobs, Communication, Writing

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• ... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown that the organism can reproduce in the body and be transmitted from one individual to another, the most important experiment remains to be done....to determine the conditions necessary for growth and reproduction of the microorganism.

  Robert Koch

  Animal, Growth, Important

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• The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Technique, Essentials, Tradition

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.125, Routledge

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• I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed.

  Wilkie Collins

  Girl, School, Views

  Wilkie Collins (1874). “The Moonstone: A Novel”, p.439

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• I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

  Bill Peet

  Writing, Yellow, Sketching

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• All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

  Philip Bobbitt

  Taken, Men, Decision

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• If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Self, Ideas, Sticks

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• Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

  George A. Sheehan

  Choices, Life Is, Subjects

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

  Robert Glasper

  Art

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

  Ben Lerner

  Writing, Criticism, Fiction

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Europe's experiment with multiculturalism, or the side-by-side existence of different cultures, has failed throughout the continent. Integration requires a minimum basis of shared values, that is, a culture of mutual tolerance and respect - in other words, what constitutes the heart of European culture.

  Walter Kasper

  Heart, Europe, Tolerance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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