Quotes About Experiment

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Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is.

This new project of hers was in experimental theology. But so is all of science she thought.

the metaphysicist has no laboratory.

There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brilliance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with experiment. In my view, the human condition would be greatly improved if such confrontations and willingness to reject hypotheses were a regular part of our social, political, economic, religious and cultural lives.

Our probable ancestors, Homo erectus and Homo habilis -now extinct- are classified as of the same genus (Homo) but of different species, although no one (at least lately) has attempted the appropriate experiments to see if crosses of them with us would produce fertile offspring.

Cu toÅ£ii suntem cobai în laboratorul lui Dumnezeu. Umanitatea nu-i decât o invenÅ£ie aflat? în plin? formare.

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?

Everything is a test.

Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D and you still have the frog you started with.

An hour ago Cutwell had thumbed through the index of The Monster Fun Grimoire and had cautiously assembled a number of common household ingredients and put a match to them. Funny thing about eyebrows, he mused. You never really noticed them until they'd gone.

Er, why do you need to work in a dark room, though? he said. The imps don't need it, do they? Ah, zis is for my experiment, said Otto proudly. You know zat another term for an iconographer would be 'photographer'? From the old word photos in Latation, vhich means - 'To prance around like a pillock ordering everyone about as if you owned the place', said William. Ah, you know it!

Quimby was eventually killed by a disgruntled poet during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb "The pen is mightier than the sword," and in his memory it was amended to include the phrase "only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp.

It's a certainty, but it just might work.

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Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth.

Joseph Mandell and I began by attempting to make chromatography of DNA work.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

I love hands-on science and teaching the kids. I love to see kids experiment with things that they can make happen. Not just something you read the directions to and put it together that way. Things that can be constructed, something they can touch. What a great day when you can touch a child's mind with these ideas.

Everybody wants to experiment, wants to explore. You should hear me at karaoke. I can sing anything you throw at me. I can do a good Dave Grohl.