Quotes About Experiment

Asch también descubrió que bastaba con que una sola persona se atreviera a expresar su opinión y diera la respuesta correcta ante el sujeto del experimento para que este se sintiera liberado para responder correctamente también. El desacuerdo hace que la mente se libere del miedo.

People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way.

Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after.

After many ponderous experiments the first crematorium was opened in December 1920 in Petrograd. It could manage barely 120 bodies a month, and, in February 1921, cremated itself when the wooden roof caught fire.

It is cocaine, he said,—a seven-per-cent. solution. Would you care to try it?

I have to be careful, he continued, turning to me with a smile, for I dabble with poisons a good deal.

I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry.

Tausend Teufel!" he exclaimed, rapping out a tremendous South German oath, to the great astonishment of his audience and to the disgust of the Swedenborgian. "Where the Henker am I then, and what in thunder has occurred? Oh yes, I remember now. One of these nonsensical mesmeric experiments. There is no result

D'you know why God made Hijras? It was an experiment. He decided to create something, a living creature that is incapable of happiness. So he made us.

This experiment of making mortality a medical experience is just decades old. It is young. And the evidence is it is failing.

A team at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles had actually gotten far enough along to begin human trials of a temporary, bioengineered liver.

Do we ever say that we need them to agree to it anyway? I've never seen it. Given the stakes, who in their right mind would agree to be practiced upon?

Mostly, the experiments did more harm than good.

We know the patterns. We see the costs. It's time to try something else. Try a checklist.

When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

What good were these experiments?" went the skeptic's question. To which Franklin replied, "What good is a new-born babe?" In some versions he continued: "He may be an imbecile, or a man of great intelligence. Let us wait for him to complete his studies before judging him.

It was a cold-blooded lottery that paid off often enough to be worthwhile adapting for.

Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.

a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation.

Is there any point in hosting a party for time travellers? Would you hope anyone would turn up? In 2009 I held a party for time travellers in my college, Gonville and Caius in Cambridge, for a film about time travel. To ensure that only genuine time travellers came, I didn't sent out the invitations until after the party. On the day of the party, I sat in college hoping, but no one came.

Einstein never accepted that the universe was governed by chance; his feelings were summed up in his famous statement, 'God does not play dice.' Most other scientists, however, were willing to accept quantum mechanics because it agreed perfectly with experiment.

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one can never be too sure of an idea until it is tested against nature.