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Quotes About Test

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Life is a test, make sure you study for it.
~ RJ Intindola
But if she could give the same test to humanity as a whole, Sandra thought, the outcome would be very much in doubt. Subject is confused and often self-destructive. Subject pursues short-term gratification at the expense of his own well-being.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for, is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
math performance in Asian American women, built around the stereotypes of Asians being good at math, and women not. Half the subjects were primed to think of themselves as Asian before a math test; their scores improved. Half were primed about gender; scores declined. Moreover, levels of activity in cortical regions involved in math skills changed in parallel.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Imagine how well you would drive if after taking your driving test you bought a car and parked in your driveway only to drive in emergencies!
~ Robert Patterson
If a child attempts to cooperate at test time, it is called 'cheating.' In the real world of business, business owners cooperate at test time, and in the world of business, every day is test time.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Surely there must be something massive enough to damage even a vampire beyond healing. I hoped someday to test the theory. I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
~ Hal Clement
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
~ Adam Savage
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.
~ Michael Kinsley
The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.
~ Karl Hess
To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.
~ Peter David, Stone and Anvil
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.
~ Pierre Duhem
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.
~ Andrew Greeley
Pittacus Lore, Five's Betrayal
~ All of life is a test.
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Brothers, I see a meaning in this pain and suffering; I see God therein. The hour is sent to us for trial. Let us meet the test.
~ zweig stefan ii
If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Try before you trust.
~ Aesop
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but Do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have for ever?
~ Alain de Botton
Perhaps the greatest obstacle to systemic reform was that it required numerous stakeholders - textbook publishers, test publishers, schools of education, and so on - to change, which turned out to be an insurmountable political obstacle.
~ Diane Ravitch