Quotes About Experiment

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Change usually begins with someone feeling a level of desperation that leads him or her to take constructive risks and experiment with alternative ways of being that previously felt inaccessible.

If one of the species you're using in your experiment fails every test you give it, the problem may be you, the researcher, not the animal. You may have failed to understand what is relevant to the way a bird sees the world.

Surprising," says Lefebvre, "but reassuring in a way: At least we found one test that grassquits do well. If one of the species you're using in your experiment fails every test you give it, the problem may be you, the researcher, not the animal. You may have failed to understand what is relevant to the way a bird sees the world.

Words will do that. We are a naming species, and what we call things influences the way we think about them and the experiments we deem worthy of doing.

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn't expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.

The point of having a hypothesis is not to be right. It's about the data. Sometimes the data takes you in a direction you never imagined, and you have an interesting result.

In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped to test his invention--he expected to fly--but instead he fell straight down, hitting the ground like a meteor and leaving a 5.9-inch-deep crater from the impact. Did he mean to kill himself? Doubtful. I think he was just cocky, and also stupid.

Experiment escorts us last- His pungent company will not allow an axiom An opportunity

Experiment to me Is every one I meet. If it contain a kernel? The figure of a nut Presents upon a tree, Equally plausibly; But meat within is requisite, To squirrels and to me.

The conservatism of a religion—its orthodoxy—is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap. A rising religious movement is all change and experiment—open to new views and techniques from all quarters.

Type in Google "Do not push the red button" and… Yeah, push it. It gets better every time.

Some growers believe that a particular type of music makes the plants grow faster, but most agree that the best strategy for the plants is to play whatever music the workers like best.

The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine. (Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.)

'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.