Quotes About Experiment

For 167 days in 1925 two Polish researchers ate almost nothing but potatoes (mashed with butter, steamed with salt, cut with oil into potato salad). At the end they reported no weight gain, no health problems, and, improbably, "no craving for change" in their diet.

Plots with charcoal alone grew little, but those treated with a combination of charcoal and fertilizer yielded as much as 880 percent more than plots with fertilizer alone.

On the other hand, I am not very sceptical,—a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A good deal of scepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met with not a few men, who, I feel sure, have often thus been deterred from experiment or observations, which would have proved directly or indirectly serviceable.

Of course I grew it in a fucking tank! What do you think I am, a farmer?

Who knows? It's a long shot, but it just might work.

In the case of a randomized, controlled experiment, the control group is the counterfactual

these cases, the goal is to find two groups of subjects who are broadly similar except for the application of whatever "treatment" we care about.

he definitely wasn't home separating ions in his spare time.

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

Testing a hypothesis using the numbers that helped form the hypothesis in the first place is not OK.15

Time to experiment. Necessity being the motherfucker of whatever is in its way.

On October 31, 1952, U.S. Operation Ivy began with the detonation of Mike, the world's first high-yield two-stage thermonuclear device, at the Enewetak Atoll [formerly spelled Eniwetok] in the Pacific. At 10.4 megatons, the experimental liquid deuterium device exceeded the explosive power of all ordnance detonated in World Wars

Specifically, they'd used genetic material from colon cancer, one of the more robust strains, and the results had been striking. The

GULL (musing) : The law of probability, it has been oddly asserted, is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys (he has surprised himself) ... if six monkeys were .. . ROS: Game? GULL: Were they? ROS: Are you? GULL (understanding): Game. (Flips a coin.) The law of averages, if I have got this right, means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their

Racing at four and a half times the speed of any other conveyance, Tom Thumb was both a marvel and a mystery. The train's owners and occupants first questioned whether the human body could endure such speed. Many of the passengers on Tom Thumb's first run were human guinea pigs who brought along paper and pencil to test whether cogent thought was possible at such speed.47

This extraordinary story you hold in your hands was specifically intended as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial.

Stanley Milgram's electric shocks

Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.

Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.

Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once we invented the scientific method, we could immediately create thousands of other amazing things we could have never discovered any other way.

The whole experience felt like what drugs must have felt like. It was the high of doing something weird, not knowing the outcome.

Did you know you just put the peel in the pan and the potatoes down the waste disposal?' he enquired with interest. 'It's a new recipe.' His lips twitched but his expression remained solemn. 'The results should be...interesting.