Quotes About Experiment

life in our modern era is little more than life in an open-air mind-control laboratory.

However, at that stage in the walk one of those curious changes took place in circumstances of mutual intercourse that might almost be compared, scientifically speaking, with the addition in the laboratory of one chemical to another, by which the whole nature of the experiment is altered: perhaps even an explosion brought about.

Perhaps he may, sir. There's no knowing what a 'orse can carry till he's tried.

It should not be forgotten that 600 Soviet prisoners of war were gassed in Auschwitz on 3 September 1941. This was the first experiment there with Zyklon B.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

the very atoms of his simple brain were being twisted into new patterns. If he survived, those patterns would become eternal, for his genes would pass them on to future generations. It was a slow, tedious business, but the crystal monolith was patient. Neither it, nor its replicas scattered across half the globe, expected to succeed with all the scores of groups involved in the experiment.

But it was in the art of the cartoon film, with its limitless possibilities, that New Athens had made its most successful experiments. The hundred years since the time of Disney had still left much undone in this most flexible of all mediums. On the purely realistic side, results could be produced indistinguishable from actual photography—much to the contempt of those who were developing the cartoon along abstract lines.

Max was nervous long before Dr. Blue started to open what Max called the "bug jar.

It would be superfluous to drive us mad, my dear Watson, said he. A candid observer would certainly declare that we were so already before we embarked upon so wild an experiment.

A third attempt, later in the day, provoked a terrific crash, and a subsequent message from the Central Exchange that Professor Challenger's receiver had been shattered. After that we abandoned all attempt at communication.

beating the dead animals in the dissecting room with a stick." "Beating them with a stick!" "Yes, to see whether bruises could be made after death. I saw him at it with my own eyes." "But he is not a medical student?" "No. I have no idea what he wants to do with his studies. But here

The experiment with humanity is at an end, Aunt Fanny said. Splendid, Mrs. Halloran said, I was getting very tired of all of them.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Of course it would not occur to us to doubt the importance, experimentally demonstrated, of external sensory stimuli during sleep, but we have given this material the same place relative to the dream-wish as we have the remnants of thought left over from the work of the day. We do not need to dispute that the dream interprets the objective sensory stimulus as if it were an illusion; but where the authorities left the motive for this interpretation uncertain, we have put it in.

We all still show too little respect for nature, which in Leonardo's deep words recalling Hamlet's speech is full of infinite reasons which never appeared in experience. Every one of us human beings corresponds to one of the infinite experiments in which these reasons of nature force themselves into experience.

learning comes only from the taking of chances and risk

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life.

In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.

Every evil starts with 15 volts.

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain

Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.