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Quotes About Experiment

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.
~ Andra Day
When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it.
~ Craig Venter
I am beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years ago, I sat down at a typewriter to experiment with words, to try to tease out of the amorphous, chaotic and wordless part of myself the reason why I was staying on this hilltop in the Ozarks after my first husband, with whom I had started a beekeeping business, and I had divorced.
~ Sue Hubbell
In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
~ Abhishek Bachchan
I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the early 20th century. Then Russia had something that no other country has had, which is the longest totalitarian experiment in history.
~ Masha Gessen
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
~ Thomas Huxley
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
From apparently superluminal radio sources in deep space, to the neutrinos that were supposed to be arriving ahead of schedule at the Grand Sasso experiment in Italy, every apparent exception to Einstein's ultimate speed law has turned out to be a phantom.
~ Alastair Reynolds
One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.
~ David Crane
I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.
~ Jack W. Szostak
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
~ G. Edward Griffin
Now I know what the atom looks like.
~ Ernest Rutherford
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment
~ Steve Albini
How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!
~ Rumi
I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.
~ Sydney Brenner
I can vividly recall the way, after he had connected its arterial hoses to a wall-mounted lung he kept in the laboratory, he was able to manipulate the actuating rods that protruded from the arm's ragged base, and in response the hand would open and close fitfully.
~ Ted Chiang
When a prism was activated, a quantum measurement was performed inside the device, with two possible outcomes of equal probability:
~ Ted Chiang
Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.
~ Ren Ng
I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
~ Taylor Wilson
In special effects, you can cheat to make it look good. In real science, you have to have results.
~ Grant Imahara
The aim of a nuclear-transplant experiment is to insert the nucleus of a specialized cell into an unfertilized egg whose nucleus has been removed.
~ John Gurdon
I'm very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film.
~ Emmanuel Lubezki
Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.
~ Shaun Tan
I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally.
~ Jerrold Nadler