Quotes About Experiment

As the physicist Richard Feynman once observed, "[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is— absurd.

Violetta: Didn't you even run any tests? Tarvek: With what?! I came in here in a bedsheet!

All of this technology wasn't available to Einstein. I bet he would've invented LIGO.

Groundbreaking research involves a high level of risk.

In 2006, when doing a live stage show in Ireland, I tried for the first time to instantly induct a subject on stage, something I had never done before, nor did I know if it would ever work. The result almost cost me my career; the man I grabbed and instantly inducted went out cold and fell to the floor.

We come from a generation where the music was very innovative, a lot of it coming out of blues and influenced by blues: the idea was that you would jam on things, and you'd try things out. You took a journey, and you took a left turn, and you experimented live right there in the moment.

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Nevertheless, with regard to philosophies of this kind there is one caution not to be omitted; for I foresee that if ever men are roused by my admonitions to betake themselves seriously to experiment and bid farewell to sophistical doctrines, then indeed through the premature hurry of the understanding to leap or fly to universals and principles of things, great danger may be apprehended from philosophies of this kind, against which evil we ought even now to prepare.

Uno de los hallazgos claros de la economía conductual experimental es que las personas son mucho más sensibles a las pérdidas que a las ganancias.

Eat grass-fed meat, wild-caught fish, greens, nuts, a bit of fruit—and no other carbs—for a month and see how you feel.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

Dr Frost and Dr Bohrmann

Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Above all, try something.

But those stories inspire observations and experiments that do help us sort out what's going on. The science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov reportedly once said, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.

In other words, both macaques and rats volunteer for tests only when they feel confident, suggesting that they know their own knowledge.

Would anyone test the memory of human children by throwing them into a swimming pool to see if they remember where to get out? Yet

The credo of experimental science remains that an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

You never know how much you'll like something until you try it out.

More science happens through lucky accidents than you'd believe (...).

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

actual I have learned many things I should never have known had I not tried the experiment. One of them is the precious science of patience, which teaches us that we should take our education as we would take a walk in the country, leisurely, our minds hospitably open to impressions of every sort. Such knowledge floods the soul unseen with a soundless tidal wave of deepening thought.