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Quotes About Experiment

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.
~ Dave Lombardo
I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an experiment.
~ Roisin Murphy
With 'The A-Team,' it was like, 'Alright, I'm going to do a big popcorn movie and see how that feels.'
~ Joe Carnahan
The ferment and viability in any society is directly proportionate to the number of people actively living their ideas. This is not positive thinking - it is positive action: the spirit of experiment.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
~ Ronald Fisher
I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab.
~ Craig Mello
I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.
~ Ruth Reichl
Chemistry was my college interest. Cooking is about chemistry.
~ Lidia Bastianich
If you've got a daft idea, it's probably good to have a go.
~ Dave Myers
If I hadn't been inside of Biosphere 2 and really lived a biological life-support system, I definitely would not be involved in life-support systems for space.
~ Jane Poynter
One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
~ Mark Oliphant
I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored.
~ Anthony Fauci
If no one ever tried anything, even what some folks say is impossible, no one would ever learn anything. So you just keep on trying and maybe some day you'll try something that will work.
~ Richard Louv
Faraday's principle of induction,
~ Richard Phillips
In 1986—the year before Peter Cardinal died—Gene Johnson had done an experiment that showed that Marburg and Ebola can indeed travel through the air. He infected monkeys with Marburg and Ebola by letting them breathe it into their lungs, and he discovered that a very small dose of airborne Marburg or Ebola could start an explosive infection in a monkey. Therefore, Johnson wanted the members of the expedition to wear breathing apparatus inside the cave.
~ Richard Preston
Thomas Gilovich from Cornell University and his colleagues undertook a series of studies in which they forced people to wear Barry Manilow T-shirts.7
~ Richard Wiseman
Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.
~ Richelle Mead
What's up?" I asked. "You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making out with Adrian." "It was an experiment," I said. "It was part of my therapy." "What the hell kind of therapy are you in?
~ Richelle Mead
We cooked our first meal today. I didn't know it was possible to burn spaghetti.
~ Richelle Mead
Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker!
~ Roald Dahl
In fact, the emphasis on choice and creativity in existentialist-humanist psychology has an exact parallel in the two-hole experiment. Many physicists think the best metaphor to describe that experiment is to say that we create the wave or particle depending on which experimental set-up we choose.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Dr. Herbert sensibly asks how taking a measurement can have this magic power. I don't think it can. I think we need a model with backward causality, at this point, until we find a better model, because otherwise we contradict the facts of quantum experiments. But I do not think the model is the universe. When the model gets this peculiar, we need to build a better model.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
In short, we don't need to postulate a supernatural Designer. Our experiments create the universe observed by our experiments — which when interpreted always yield an Anthropic universe, rather than any of the millions or billions of possible non-Anthropic universes — because we designed the experiments.
~ Robert Anton Wilson