Quotes About Experiment

Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

Using our explanations, we 'see' right through the behaviour to the meaning. Parrots copy distinctive sounds; apes copy purposeful movements of a certain limited class. But humans do not especially copy any behaviour. They use conjecture, criticism and experiment to create good explanations of the meaning of things – other people's behaviour, their own, and that of the world in general. That

One consequence of this tradition of criticism was the emergence of a methodological rule that a scientific theory must be testable (though this was not made explicit at first). That is to say, the theory must make predictions which, if the theory were false, could be contradicted by the outcome of some possible observation. Thus, although scientific theories are not derived from experience, they can be tested by experience – by observation or experiment

No matter how sensible-seeming or wild an idea, the smart thinker asks: Does it work? When put to the test, can its predictions be confirmed? Subjected to such scrutiny, crazy-sounding ideas sometimes find support.

I would myself argue that nowadays, at least, it is impossible to say it is just one thing, rather, art has become a field for play and experiment with the very idea of value – but all pretty much agree that, were an artist to be seen as simply in it for the money, his work would be worth less of it.

JEFF. I never asked. What happened to your leg, Mrs. Levaco? PATTIE. When Kim was staying at the hospital with her heart attack, I snuck out back for a quick smoke and I fell off the loading dock. JEFF. Oh. You probably shouldn't have been smoking anyway. PATTIE. Hey, I smoked when I was pregnant with Kim and nothin' happened to her ! ( Pattie exits .) JEFF. I'd like to put your mom in a room with my dad and conduct experiments.

Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.

You never heard ofplugging her in ? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer?

God took his chosen people and we are what's left. He looked at what's left and thought: I could kill you all, but let's see what happens. A little social experiment.

Once a month, try something you don't think you'd be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

Very, very good Pavlov, all your dogs have barked when you rang the bell. Your test was successful.

Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.

I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix

Everyone should try no gluten for a week! The change in your skin, physical and mental health is amazing. You won't go back!

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.