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Quotes About Experiment

I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
'Gulabo Sitabo' is a simple satire on life. It's a genre I have tried for the first time.
~ Shoojit Sircar
Science rules!
~ Bill Nye
Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.
~ Wolfgang Ketterle
On television one gets to do things in detail and at an easier pace. You can experiment a lot with the character, give it lot more time, and let it grow.
~ Vishwajeet Pradhan
When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
~ Garry Trudeau
The wake up machine was actually pretty painful after some time.
~ Simone Giertz
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
I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.
~ Alex Lifeson
Not a brussel sprouts fan? Try them shredded and fried in a pan with bacon - no one can say 'no' to them then.
~ Monica Galetti
I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense.
~ Genesis P-Orridge
Personally, I might be all for parallel or experimental cinema, but when I'm making a film, I don't mind adding a commercial tadka.
~ Mahesh Manjrekar
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
~ Nate Silver
Electrophoresis.
~ Peter Watts
Marshmallow guns (or other similarly useless weapons) are actually fairly common accessories in your typical spark laboratory. No one knows why. They just sort of accumulate.
~ Phil Foglio
The wavefunction tells us where we might potentially find an electron when we look; but what we do find in any given experiment is random, and we can't meaningfully say why we find it here rather than there.
~ Philip Ball
Once we know the outcome of something, that knowledge skews our perception of what we thought before we knew the outcome: that's hindsight bias. Baruch Fischhoff was the first to document the phenomenon in a set of elegant experiments.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
Galen's writings were the indisputable source of medical authority for more than a thousand years. "It is I, and I alone, who has revealed the true path of medicine," Galen wrote with his usual modesty. And yet Galen never conducted anything resembling a modern experiment. Why
~ Philip E. Tetlock
What people didn't grasp is that the only alternative to a controlled experiment that delivers real insight is an uncontrolled experiment that produces merely the illusion of insight. Cochrane
~ Philip E. Tetlock
In fact, in science, the best evidence that a hypothesis is true is often an experiment designed to prove the hypothesis is false, but which fails to do so.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
At that moment, the Stanford Prison Experiment was changed into the Stanford Prison, not by any top-down formal declarations by the staff but by this bottom-up declaration from one of the prisoners themselves.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
The rationale is this: our research will attempt to differentiate between what people bring into a prison situation from what the situation brings out in the people who are there.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
Another way of looking at it is, you're putting good people in an evil situation to see who or what wins.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
Speaking on the failure to test chemicals for safety and toxicity, the late Herbert L. Needleman, a noted pediatrician and pioneer in the study of childhood lead poisoning, observed, "We are conducting a massive toxicological experiment in the world today, and our children and grandchildren are the unknowing, unconsenting subjects.
~ Philip J. Landrigan