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• It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Beautiful, Smart, Science

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• I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Patriotic, Successful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  Galileo Galilei

  Answers, Vex, Scripture

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• One planet, one experiment.

  E. O. Wilson

  Future, Vision, Environmental

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• When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments have conspicuously failed to show rational behavior. Macro evidence certainly suggests deviations from rationality, but I don't want to say the rationality hypothesis is completely wrong. If you have any introspective idea or experimental idea about people's behavior, it seems to be incompatible with the really full scale rational expectations.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Ideas, Expectations, People

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• I write constantly, so it flows from one project to the next, and I would edit everything endlessly if I had the chance. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.

  Grant Morrison

  Writing, Knowing, Flow

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment.

  John Dewey

  Government, Organization, Democracy

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.175, SIU Press

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• The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Judging, Tests, Sole

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, Basic Books

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• Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

  Denis Diderot

  Creativity, Mean, Reflection

  John Hope Mason, Denis Diderot (1982). “The irresistible Diderot”

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• We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

  Glenn Beck

  Success, Freedom, Stupid

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• To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

  Ronald Fisher

  Examination, Posts, Died

  Presidential Address to the First Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya 4, 14-17, 1938.

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• We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

  James Madison

  Liberty, Alarms, Tyranny Founding Fathers

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• Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

  James Anthony Froude

  Science, Opponents, Calm

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

  Claude Bernard

  Truth, True Worth, Experimentation

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• I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

  Sophia Bush

  Fun, Character, Everyday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

  Sigmund Freud

  Failure, America, World

  "Freud: the Man and his Cause". Book by Ronald W. Clark, 1980.

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• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Truth, Vision

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.43, A&C Black

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• America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

  Herbert Hoover

  America, Presidential, Purpose

  Letter toWilliam E. Borah, 23 Feb. 1928.

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• I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Liberty, May

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.165, Cambridge University Press

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• An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Brain, Important

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• How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Educational, Learning

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.41, Booklassic

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• Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

  H. G. Wells

  Successful, Atheism, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.68, H. G. Wells

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• There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

  P. D. James

  Writing, Learning, Science

  P. D. James (2008). “Devices and Desires”, p.303, Faber & Faber

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• About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Research, Too Much, Program

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• If you want to understand the nature of something, to find out the truth, that is one thing. If you want to play semantics, make up wild thought 'experiments', that is another thing. I am not so interested in the latter, though I do appreciate that it can be fun, however unproductive.

  Patricia Churchland

  Fun, Play, Appreciate

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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