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Quotes About Experiment

Lab assistants do what they're told. Scientists figure out what to do next.
~ Seth Godin
Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.
~ Sharon Salzberg
language that felt linked to my experience. In the sixties, the physicist John Stewart Bell theorized that particles that were once connected will, when separated, behave as if still connected, regardless of the distance between them. Some years later a French physicist, Alain Aspect, conducted experiments offering physical proof of Bell's theorem.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Democracy, Ganapathi, is perhaps the most arrogant of all forms of government, because only democrats presume to represent an entire people: monarchs and oligarchs have no such pretensions. But democracies that turn authoritarian go a step beyond arrogance; they claim to represent a people subjugating themselves. India was now the laboratory of this strange political experiment. Our people would be the first in the world to vote on their own subjugation.
~ Shashi Tharoor
Well, isn't that interesting. (Bubba) I ain't your science experiment, Bubba. I don't want to be interesting and I definitely don't want to be a nubby treat for the zombies. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And in your time period, there are plenty of tasers and electrical devices that can completely incapacitate me. No offense, but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect.
~ Rameet Chawla
I just think that life is a constant experiment.
~ Reggie Watts
He waited while Gilan and Will moved the cloaks experimentally, eyeing each other and studying the unusual colors, seeing how they would blend into the landscape of rock and desert that surrounded Al Shabah. All right, ladies," he said, "if you're finished with the fashion show, let's go meet the Wakir.
~ John Flanagan
A notable experiment in 2007 showed that cognitive flexibility improves after just one thirty-five-minute treadmill session at either 60 percent or 70 percent of maximum heart rate.
~ John J. Ratey
From Grenada we soared across the bottom of the Caribbean, staying well offshore of the now-dangerous coast of Venezuela, a once-proud country spiraling into anarchy as its experiment with a populist strongman collapses, standing as a stark warning to other countries.
~ John Kretschmer
It is, it seems, politically impossible for a capitalistic democracy to organize expenditure on the scale necessary to make the grand experiments which would prove my case—except in war conditions
~ John Maynard Keynes
Of course I am extra strong, but those who try know that strength and knowledge come with doing. I just love to experiment, to work, and to prove out things, so that ranch life and "roughing it" just suit me.
~ Elinore Pruitt Stewart
our life is the instrument we use to experiment with the truth.
~ Eliot Pattison
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.
~ Eliot Spitzer
button that third time. Pavlov's
~ Elise Allen
There was no grand design behind any of it: just a series of fumbling attempts to do something.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Remember, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Don't be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
No seas muy tímido ni quisquilloso sobre tus acciones. Toda la vida es un experimento. Mientras más experimentos hagas, mejor".
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
These included mealworms; a hairless, newborn mouse, known as a "pinky"; and the hindquarters of an adult mouse
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Female African clawed frogs, when injected with the urine of a pregnant woman, lay eggs within a few hours.)
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
I hope it will not shock experimental physicists too much if I say that we do not accept their observations unless they are confirmed by theory.
~ Arthur Eddington
Galileo's science managed to fuse the Platonist's faith in mathematics with the Aristotelian faith in experience as the basis of discovery. All his work on mechanics, optics, and astronomy was deeply rooted in experiment and empirical research. When experience proved ambiguous or unreliable, however, Galileo realized then that mathematics must take over.
~ Arthur Herman