Quotes About Experiment

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

It's okay to take that reservoir of passion that you have and let it flow into whatever you love. Experiment, question, replicate, be critical, be nerdy, be yourself.

Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.

Art must be inherently radical, but buildings are inherently conservative. Art must experiment to do its job. Most experiments fail. Art costs extra. How much extra are you willing to pay to live in a failed experiment? Art flouts convention. Convention became conventional because it works. Aspiring to art means aspiring to a building that almost certainly cannot work, because the old good solutions are thrown away. The roof has a dramatic new look, and it leaks dramatically.

Over the last decades, Republicans have been conducting an experiment to determine how many control rods of truth could be taken out of a civil society's core reactor of truth without creating a meltdown. It didn't start with Trump, but Trump may prove to be the meltdown.

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

She devised a very simple experiment to look at the four behaviors that Bowlby and she believed were basic to attachment: that we monitor and maintain emotional and physical closeness with our beloved; that we reach out for this person when we are unsure, upset, or feeling down; that we miss this person when we are apart; and that we count on this person to be there for us when we go out into the world and explore.

With your family - with your whole life, really - you don't get to have a control group. You don't have any way of knowing how things would have turned out if you'd done something differently, made another choice, followed a different path.

See? It's easy. Try. Try the exquisite pleasure of surprising yourself.

The most consistent thing about Graham Wessit was his attitude of open experiment. Can you even imagine , she asked herself, plain, quiet, intellectual little you spending a lifetime on the arm of such a havoc-producing man?

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.

Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering.

Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.

If I doubt whether a track works, I'm just going to play the instrumental version in my set and judge where the crowd takes it.

The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

When the Internet was first - as an experiment and then when it - as it mushroomed, security was never an integral part of what the Internet was designed for. I mean, it just didn't - wasn't a consideration.

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

High school was interesting. For a lot of people, high school was just a big social experiment, and I think the value of high school was not so much learning how to be a great student... but I think it's learning how to interact with people and be social. I would say that in that endeavor, I completely failed.