Quotes About Experiment

Reason and experiment have been indulged, and error has fled before them. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.

Try to squeeze a watermelon into a small tumbler sometime when your reflexes are not so good. It is next to impossible.

Suppose we considered the war itself as a laboratory ?

When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. 'This is my last experiment,' wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. 'If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I'll have to be shown.

In Tinkham (1993), two experiments compared the learning rates of the same ESL learners who were learning semantically related and then semantically unrelated target vocabulary items. Results of this study showed that the learners were able to learn the semantically unrelated target items much more quickly than they could do with the semantically related items.

The black-white rift stands at the very center of American history. It is the great challenge to which all our deepest aspirations to freedom must rise. If we forget that--if we forget the great stain of slavery that stands at the heart of our country, our history, our experiment--we forget who we are, and we make the great rift deeper and wider.

It would be easy to get the idea from all this that Mimosa is some kind of genius, a veritable Einstein among vegetables. But there's no evidence for this at all. The reason all this work has focused on Mimosa is simply that its ability to move (and fast) makes it a convenient experimental subject, which in turn reveals just what a hasty bunch we are; other plants may well be smarter than Mimosa , but until very recently biologists had generally decided that it would take too long to find out.

No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you'll end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when we assume the facial expressions of a given mental mood - any given mood - then that mental mood itself will follow.

We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts." "Big doubts?" I said weakly. The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.

During the Second World War, the United States military initiated Project X-Ray, a top secret program in which bats were trained to carry and deliver explosive devices. Ultimately the project was scrapped after hundreds of bats escaped from the test range, incinerated several army buildings, and took up residence beneath a large fuel tank.

One of us might have dreamt it, but not both, not both at the same time with the same dream," Robert responded thinking carefully. Virginia spoke slowly. "It was a nightmare seeing those strange aliens. They acted like we were an experiment, poking and testing our bodies. And talking to us through their eyes. I could understand them. That's what scared me so badly," she screamed again. "Let's get the hell out of here," Robert yelled.

when all is said and done, our own existence is an experiment of nature, an attempt at a new synthesis.

We cannot be resolved of any doubt save by experiment

Rhine's experiments confront us with the fact that there are events which are related to one another experimentally, and in this case meaningfully, without there being any possibility of proving that this relation is a causal one, since the "transmission" exhibits none of the known properties of energy.

this thirty-day experiment

What was needed was a large-scale comparative study of different approaches to inoculation to discover which, in practical terms, was likely to be successful. But how to design such an experiment in the eighteenth century? There was only one answer: orphans.

Tempt fate. See what happens.

Features are always a gamble. If you're lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits.

every Facebook user was part of a massive load testing program, which

By choosing carefully where and how to start, we are able to experiment and learn in areas of our organization that create value without jeopardizing the rest of the organization. By doing this, we build our base of support, earn the right to expand the use of DevOps in our organization, and gain the recognition and gratitude of an ever-larger constituency.

And if we can't experiment, we can't learn!

Xin Sun seemed to know remarkably little about how to do experiments. If I were to think of someone in the lab who might be a Chinese spy, it would be him. Not Mei Li.

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.

Weak men, indeed, are prejudiced towards rules and systems in life and government; and think if these are gone all is gone: but a man of a great soul and free spirit delights in the noble experiment of blowing up systems and dissolving governments, to mould them anew upon other principles and in another shape.