Quotes About Experiment

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Playing with your potential is like playing in your food, you shift things around and before long everything on the plate gos cold.

Past is experience,present is experiment and future is expectation...so use your experience in your experiments to achieve your expectations.

Trying is the first step to failure

Those who have never tried the experiment of a holy life measure the laws of God, not by their intrinsical goodness, but by the reluctancy and opposition which they find in their hearts

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Don't be afraid to experiment. Stop living under laws. If it looks or sounds good to you stick with it. There is no true look for good.

Certainly we are obliged to relive our particular suffering with the courage of a physician who tries over again upon himself an experiment with a dangerous serum.

The impression is for the writer what experiment is for the scientist, with the difference that in the scientist the work of the intelligence precedes the experiment and in the writer it comes after the impression.

I guess I'm just going to have to give it a try and find out.

One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seemingly be in more than one place at the same time until it is observed, at which point there seems to be a random choice made about where the particle is really located. Scientists currently believe that this randomness is genuine, not just caused by a lack of information. Repeat the experiment under the same conditions and you may get a different answer each time.

Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it again with exactly the same conditions--that it is, in fact, impossible. Locally, you might get the conditions exactly the same, but you have to embed the experiment in the universe, and that has moved on. You can't rewind the wave function of the universe and rerun it. The universe is a one-time-only experiment that includes us as part of its wave function, and there's no going back.

One wouldn't want to be responsible for the end, but one might like to be there and know it was all over, the whole bang stupid pointless unnecessarily painful experiment

William Morris's glitteringly bonkers 1896 experiment in archaically toned berserkery;

We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

We need not impose poverty, but it must not frighten us, as it is the most favorable condition for spiritual development we can find, if accepted with assent. If we want to experiment in giving freedom to the child, the field of poverty is the best.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

Scientist believe in things, not in person

People aren't too different from lab rats. We seek out rewarding experiences and steer clear of punishing ones. If interaction with you is a disagreeable event, people will avoid it. (from chapter 12) tl;dr people aren't too different from lab rats

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.