Quotes About Experiment

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Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

The final proof as to whether a certain habitat form has a genetic basis or is entirely phenotypical can be found only through experiments.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

We're always looking for ground where we can experiment, where we can do something that's relevant but that hasn't been done before. Can it be in recorded music? Can it be in the field of a tour? These can take any kind of forms.

Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature prominently in U.S. foreign policy.

Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

'The Xpose' was just an experiment, a small step into Bollywood. It wasn't my acting debut, as reported in Mumbai. I've done a couple of Punjabi films.

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

I wanted to see if I could make a living off of having fun.

It really all started in Buffalo, when it was cold, I wanted to see if I could grow facial hair and lo and behold it just kept growing.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.

I want to experiment and include different elements of the music-making process in a song.

With independent films, you again get to work with new directors and experiment too.

To go back to where I started in the previous chapter: When planning, remember the Latin word experiri, the origin of the English words experiment and experience. Whenever possible, planning should maximize experience, both frozen and unfrozen.

La science ne connaît qu'une loi : la contribution scientifique. (Scène 14, Andrea, La Vie de Galilée, Bertolt Brecht )

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.