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Quotes About Experiment

So, just collecting lots of data to SUPPORT a Theory is of limited use: a good Scientist looks for evidence to DISPROVE a Theory.
~ Unknown
Play is experimenting with chance.
~ Novalis
i want you to know this waz an experiment to see how selfish i cd be if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another if i cd stand not being wanted when i wanted to be wanted & i cannot so with no further assistance & no guidance from you i am endin this affair this note is attached to a plant i've been waterin since the day i met you you may water it yr damn self
~ Ntozake Shange
She could not make herself ask whether he would be conscious and aware during these experiments. She hoped he would be.
~ Octavia E. Butler
4. That if the earth moved, or even revolved on its own axis, a stone or other dropped body ought to be left far behind.
~ Oliver Lodge
That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
~ Oscar Wilde
The book of magic is very like the cookery book; the unpracticed student of either can make a terrible hash of things.
~ Unknown
We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself (see Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you—and His experiments always succeed. The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
~ Oswald Chambers
The past is experience, present is experiment, future is expectation so, lets use our experience in expectation for our expectation.
~ Unknown
He had attempted to preserve the skin like a hide, placing it in a solution of water and salt for about a week. He concluded that he must have used too much salt, because the skin broke into pieces and he had to throw it out. "It was very disappointing.
~ Unknown
This is the essence of the thought experiment. Suppose this happens. What happens next? What would that necessitate? And then? And then? And then what implications would arise? And so on.
~ Unknown
A big part of a thought experiment is thoroughly considering the consequences and implications of certain conditions, actions or choices.
~ Unknown
I loved the discovery chemistry offered. I loved the thrill of experiment, the challenge of trial and retrial. I loved the puzzle of it. I also will admit a somewhat foolish fondness toward the apparatus involved. The bottles and tubes. The acids and salts. The mercury and flame. There is something primal in chemistry, something that defies explication. Either you feel it or you don't.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Smile at a stranger. See what happens.
~ Patti LuPone
In the absence of experimental evidence, basic beliefs of theoretical physicists may initially have almost a religious flavor, guided by faith and aesthetics. Fortunately unlike religion, these beliefs soon face the hard test of experiment.
~ Paul A.M. Dirac
In a similar study, people were asked to write about a past event that made them feel "most guilty," and then were asked to manipulate a shock machine to either increase or decrease a set amount of shock they were receiving. Again the guilty group gave themselves more shock than a control group, and the stronger the shock they gave, the more their guilt went away.
~ Paul Bloom
In experimental work, people tend to contribute more to a charity when they expect to endure pain and suffering for that cause—the so-called martyrdom effect.
~ Paul Bloom
But you can reassure children; you can tell them what's happening or going to happen. Can you get such reassurance across to a cat? I suppose it is that sort of anthropomorphism that bugs the hell out of researchers whose job is to experiment on nonhuman animals. If they permit themselves such a comparison, they might not sleep well at night.
~ Unknown
It is more important to have beauty in one's equation than to have them fit experiment
~ Paul Dirac
If you give God the right to yourself, he will make a holy experiment out of you. God's experiments always succeed.
~ Unknown
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
~ Paul Valery
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Everything you do inside an AdWords account is a little science experiment.
~ Perry Marshall