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Quotes About Experiment

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
~ Tom Robbins
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
~ Harry Houdini
Once, while shooting in Pune, I decided to experiment and ordered an item named Shepherd's Pie. I thoroughly relished it, only to be later informed that what I had was beef. I couldn't sleep that night! My only consolation was that the cow was English, not Indian!
~ Rohini Hattangadi
Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.
~ Charles Ives
Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.
~ Roy H. Williams
It is worthwhile studying other peoples, because every understanding of another culture is an experiment with our own.
~ Roy Wagner
First learn the rules, then break them.
~ RuPaul
These students were taking part in an experiment that had never been tried before. They wanted to prove that blind youngsters were capable of being taught, that they could master their handicap and lead useful, productive lives. Founded in 1784
~ Russell Freedman
Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.
~ Ryan North
All life is an experiment.
~ Marc Aronson
But in reality what Einstein had done was devise a theory that was decades ahead of its time. Experimental measurements had to catch up to his model of gravity, which had been fashioned from pure intuitive thought.
~ Marcia Bartusiak
The whole world is now one vast uncontrolled experiment - the way it always was, Crake would have said - and the doctrine of unintended consequences is in full spate.
~ Margaret Atwood
This bug is something new though. We've got the bioprint.
~ Margaret Atwood
Yes, the thought-experiment penises can get out of control
~ Margaret Atwood
Dr. B. A. Behrend, commenting on the presentation, said, "Not since the appearance of Faraday's 'Experimental Researches in Electricity' has a great experimental truth been voiced so simply and so clearly…. He left nothing to be done by those who followed him. His paper contained the skeleton even of the mathematical theory."3
~ Margaret Cheney
They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.
~ Robin Ince
It is the theory which decided what can be observed.
~ Albert Einstein
Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.
~ Matt Dillahunty
First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You shall find you have the key to telepathy.
~ Edgar Cayce
Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.
~ James Clerk Maxwell
If indeed [nature] has no greater aim than to provide a home for her greatest experiment, Man, it would be just like her methods to scatter a million stars wherof one might haply achieve her purpose.
~ Annie Dillard
the blade and began, very carefully, to make a shallow incision in the neck of a frog he had pinned, through its splayed feet, to the untreated wood.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Instead of trying to use your technology and expertise to make a better product for your users' standard behavior, experiment with inviting the users to change their behavior to make the product work dramatically better.
~ Seth Godin
With limited time or opportunity to experiment, we intentionally narrow our choices to those at the top. You're
~ Seth Godin