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Quotes About Experiment

Try a thing you havent done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
~ Unknown
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life.
~ Unknown
The only rule of science is that it has no rule.
~ Unknown
Immanuel Birmelin, an ethologist at the Society of Animal Behavior Research in Germany, explained how patient he'd had to be in order to run a test to see if cats can count: "One of the cats would do the test once in the morning—only!" he recalled. "Another would do it once in the afternoon—only!" It had taken him four years to show that cats can count to four.
~ Unknown
I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin
~ Rachel Caine
'Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
~ Hunter Hayes
Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.
~ J. K. Rowling
Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.
~ Seymour Papert
The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.
~ Philip Emeagwali
Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.
~ Thighpaulsandra
Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
~ Arthur Eddington
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
~ Arthur Eddington
I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things.
~ John Slattery
Hey, Dad, you've got to taste what we just did. It's actually good. (Omari) That is good. What did you two do? (Devyn) No idea. We just added spices until it didn't suck anymore. (Omari)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.
~ Jamie Hyneman
We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
~ Anthony Kiedis
The death penalty experiment has failed.
~ Harry A. Blackmun
The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'
~ Jon Stewart
As the noted physiologist Harold G. Wolf puts it, "Hope, faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal. This is not merely a statement of belief but a conclusion proved by meticulously controlled scientific experiment.
~ Philip Yancey
Tocqueville delivered his dispassionate and penetrating judgment of the American experiment in his great work Democracy in America. No one, before or since, has written about the United States with such insight.
~ Unknown
S? închizi între fire de sârm? ghimpat? mii de indivizi de vârste, condiÈ›ii, origini, limbi, culturi È™i obiceiuri diferite È™i s?-i supui unui regim de via?? constant, controlabil, identic pentru toÈ›i È™i mai prejos de orice necesitate e cel mai diabolic experiment pentru a stabili ce este esenÈ›ial È™i ce este dobândit în comportamentul animalului-om în lupta pentru existen??.
~ Primo Levi
She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better. Define BETTER with that guy. Not all fangs and raaaaar.
~ Rachel Caine
I ended your experiment. Because you're not a scientist. You're a monster. I'm not leaving any of them at your mercy.
~ Rachel Caine
Think of it this way: alchemists of old relied on the energy provided by tides, the moon, sun, planets in alignment. Every experiment was delicate and had to be balanced just so, or there couldn't be a proper result. Obscurists have an inborn talent to provide that energy from within and not from the world around us; we are born with quintessence.
~ Rachel Caine