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Quotes About Experiments

Laboratory experiments, field observations and atmospheric modeling calculations have now established that chemical reactions occurring on PSC particles play a central role in polar ozone depletion.
~ Mario J. Molina
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.
~ George Carlin
Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa,' has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walk- ing forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors?
~ George Eliot
Henderson had a thousand times more to do with the discovery of insulin than had Macleod. In the first place, he knew more about it. In the second place, he was consulted before every series of experiments, and he advised, criticized, or commended.
~ Frederick Banting
Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.
~ Todd Haynes
What's nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research.
~ Abhijit Banerjee
You have all this education theory, and people try to make larger statements than maybe what their data would back up, because they've done these small experiments that are tied to a very particular case with a very particular implementation... theory definitely matters, but I think dogma matters less.
~ Sal Khan
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
~ Sally Ride
Davy's work in Bristol came under attack by conservative politicians, including the famous Irish MP Edmund Burke, who accused the gas experiments of promoting not only atheism but the French Revolution.
~ Mark Kurlansky
In fact, the first experiments in refrigeration were not with fish or meat but with everyone's favorite luxury—butter.
~ Mark Kurlansky
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.
~ Sigmund Freud
Government operations tend to be everywhere alike. With individuals and voluntary associations, on the contrary, there are varied experiments, and endless diversity of experience. What the State can usefully do, is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials. Its business is to enable each experimentalist to benefit by the experiments of others, instead of tolerating no experiments but its own.
~ John Stuart Mill
Louis Rendu] collects observations, makes experiments, and tries to obtain numerical results; always taking care, however, so to state his premises and qualify his conclusions that nobody shall be led to ascribe to his numbers a greater accuracy than they merit. It is impossible to read his work, and not feel that he was a man of essentially truthful mind and that science missed an ornament when he was appropriated by the Church.
~ John Tyndall
The way [we conduct naming experiments is] to show the child two pictures, [for example, of] a baby and a doggie. You ask, "Where's the baby?" Or "Where's the doggie?" However, if [you] change the sentence a little bit and you say, "There's a ball over there," and put [the word "ball"] in the middle instead of at the end [of the sentence], they fall apart completely. They can't get it. Fernald
~ Ellen Galinsky
Reasonable people can debate whether or not social experiments like a Day of Absence are enlightening.
~ Bari Weiss
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
~ Paul Valery
may I have a workshop at Alver? For experiments? If I promise faithfully not to blow the house up? If you please, Cousin Alverstoke … ?
~ Georgette Heyer
Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.
~ Ken Liu
Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a fatal infection. This may explain why many of the medical workers who came down with Ebola couldn't remember making any mistakes that might have exposed them.
~ Richard Preston
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
All religions have core beliefs that confound these innate expectations about the world, such as faith in physically powerful but essentially bodiless deities. These beliefs grab attention, activate intuition, and mobilize inference in ways that facilitate their social transmission, cultural selection, and historical persistence. New experiments suggest that such beliefs, in small doses, are optimal for memory. This greatly favors their cultural survival. Mature
~ Scott Atran
If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on.
~ Lauren Groff
None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How would you turn Pride and Prejudice into a video game?' and 'If you added a button to Pac-Man , what would you want it to do?' Conundrums like 'How come when Mario jumps he can change direction in midair?
~ Austin Grossman