Quotes About Experiment

It's true that I was forty-four when we opened our first Wal-Mart in 1962, but the store was totally an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since Newport—another case of me being unable to leave well enough alone, another experiment. And like most other overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist...

I felt free this time, knowing I had a job and that I wasn't going to be graded. I could simply experiment and create. The thought occurred to me that if I always lived under the certainty of God's provision instead of the certainty of Lexi's worry, I might always feel this free.

As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.

Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.

Let's just start and see what happens.

Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

But never being wrong is no proof that the method of testing is sound for all cases

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

On a shelf over the experiment table there was the inevitable skull, which the wizard put their to remind him of death, though it usually reminded him that he needed to go to the dentist.

One of my favorites is "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.

it is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

Since string theorists have failed to propose any way to confirm string theory experimentally, string theory should be retired

seminary students in a rush were far less likely to help a stranger than were seminary students who weren't late, in the experiment performed by John M. Darley and Dan Batson).

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experientially and experimentally. When the limits are determined, it is found that they are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind, there are no limits. The body imposes definite limits.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

Whoever said nothing is impossible obviously hasn't tried nailing Jell-O to a tree.

A 4'33 összesen 273 másodpercet jelent, amire a fizikus rögtön felkapja a fejét. A -273 Celsius-fok az abszolút nulla hÅ'mérsékletet jelenti. Ez az az energiaszint, ahol megsz?nik minden molekuláris mozgás, ami azt is jelenti, hogy ezt a hÅ'mérsékletet már nem lehet tovább csökkenteni. Cage e m?vével a hang abszolút nullpontját kívánta megmutatni.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

To be intelligently experimental is but to be conscious of [the] intersection of natural conditions so as to profit by it instead of being at its mercy. The Christian idea of this world and this life as a probation is a kind of distorted recognition of the situation; distorted because it applied wholesale to one stretch of existence in contrast with another, regarded as original and final

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.