Quotes About Experiment

There's something illiberal about the way infants are thrust into the hands of people who have no idea what they're doing, who can only experiment.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

I saw an exhibition of paintings of alchemists once,' said Ruth. 'It used to be a popular setpiece. There was one I liked by Joseph Wright of Derby?of an alchemist who'd accidentally discovered phosphorus. He's just crouching there, staring in amazement at his test tube or alembic, or whatever you call it. A bloody good painting, actually.

I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.

Everything that people say is testable.

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced.

Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Ex pede Herculem. "From his foot, [we can measure] Hercules", is a maxim of proportionality inspired by an experiment attributed to Pythagoras.

Ex pede Herculem. "From his foot, [we can measure] Hercules", is a maxim of proportionality inspired by an experiment attributed to Pythagoras. In other words, one can extrapolate the whole from the part. Ex ungue leonem, "from its claw [we can know] the lion," is a similar phrase.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

Humanity is an experimental initiative of Universe.

it is a scientific product made in the political laboratory of the Nation

Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

Americans are right to wonder if, at long last, what George Washington called the Great Experiment has failed, and that our founders have lost their extraordinary wager that regular people could govern themselves better than a few rich men could.

I will not undertake to offer an opinion on the capacity of Hindustan to produce cotton. The region is large, and the soil and climate various, the population great and wages low; but I must be permitted to doubt the success of the experiment of driving us out of the market, though backed and patronized by English capital and energy.

I loved science. Bunsen burners - I couldn't wait for an explosion!