Quotes About Experiments

Anti-black racism is in the culture. It's in our laws, in our advertisements, in our friendships, in our segregated cities, in our schools, in our Congress, in our scientific experiments, in our language, on the Internet, in our bodies no matter our race, in our communities, and, perhaps most devastatingly, in our justice system.

Latin America in the late twentieth century was a tragic laboratory for testing all the wrong ways to think about a national culture.

The radiation experiments are part of the climate and historical background for mind control experimentation.

When I started working at NASA and understanding what the capabilities really were of the space station and the space program, one of the biggest draws for me was the ability to do experiments in space. We can do a number of experiments where gravity is actually a variable.

Beginning in 1986, a series of field experiments were designed to test the various hypotheses which had been put forth to explain the Antarctic ozone hole.

I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

In 2005, scientists in the lab of May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser used a similar experimental setup, again with rats. In their experiments, they recorded signals from neurons in the entorhinal cortex, adjacent to the hippocampus.

Using both experiments and field data, a recent study found that economic insecurity was associated with increased consumption of painkillers and produced actual physical pain and reduced pain tolerance, with the absence of control providing one mechanism explaining these results.

I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.

All of the studies we do in my group are quantified.

A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations to do studies - all this kind of stuff. It's very democratic.

I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style.

The issue is not whether Piaget's observations and experiments can be replicated; the issue is whether Piaget's method of assessing infant competencies (i.e., his reliance on sensorimotor action such as manual search) systematically underestimated infants' competencies.

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

There could, in principle, be an institution that looked like what we call science but in which there was no genuine responsiveness to the world. Experiments would be no more than expensive PR exercises, and theories would change via a process of negotiation between factions. How do we know that our own science is not like this?

Just as a rat can be conditioned to press a lever in return for a reward of food, so a human being can be conditioned by professional rewards to ignore the ethical issues raised by animal experiments.

Preston Nichols and Peter Moon's 1992 book The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time

It cannot be overstated that the emphasis on visual thinking among German-speaking scientists and engineers circa 1900 was widespread. Yet in 1905 it was Einstein who combined visual thinking with Gedanken experiments and quasiaesthetic notions with dazzling results.

The ultimate lesson to prohibition is two-fold. Watch out for solutions that end up worse than the problems they set out to solve, and remember the Constitution is no place for experiments, noble or otherwise." – D. Duane Steward, PhD

The weak force violates parity symmetry by acting differently on left-handed and right-handed particles. It turns out that only left-handed particles experience the weak force. For example, a left-handed electron would experience the weak force, whereas one spinning to the right would not. Experiments show this clearly—it's the way the world works—but there is no intuitive, mechanical explanation for why this should be so.

The slowing down of time in high-speed travel is known as "time dilation" and is routinely taken into account in physics experiments, particularly those in which subatomic particles are accelerated in "atom smashers" such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva.

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.