Experiments famous quotes

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
-- Albert Claude

#Struggle #Cells #Experiments

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
-- Alison Gopnik

#Way #Influence #Experiments

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
-- Alison Gopnik

#Design #Scientist #Experiments

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
-- Anais Nin

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Experiments

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.
-- Andrew Weil

#Figure Skating #Figures #Experiments

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
-- Andy Garcia

#Want #Experiments #Temporary

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.
-- Anthony Romero

#Immigration #Prejudice #Experiments

Unperformed experiments have no results.
-- Asher Peres

#Results #Experiments

We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us
-- Atul Gawande

#Aging #Failing #Experiments

But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.
-- Auguste Laurent

#Position #Experiments #Dualism

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

#Response #Experiments

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
-- Charles Ives

#Music #Inspiration #Experiments

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.
-- Charles Ives

#Inspiration #Experiments

Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.
-- Chris Hadfield

#Culture #Spaceflight #Experiments

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
-- Claude Bernard

#Truth #Experiments

Il ne fallait jamais faire des expériences pour confirmer ses idées, mais simplement pour les contrôler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
-- Claude Bernard

#Ideas #Experiments

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
-- Claude Bernard

#Ideas #Experiments

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
-- Claude Bernard

#Science #Observation #Experiments

Consider everything an experiment.
-- Corita Kent

#Imagination #Experiments

Regard everything as an experiment.
-- Corita Kent

#Experiments

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
-- Dan Aykroyd

#Film #Makers #Experiments

One failed experiment is one step closer to Success
-- Denzel Washington

#Steps #Experiments

Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?
-- Dorothy Hodgkin

#Molecules #Complicated #Experiments

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.
-- Edward Weston

#Artist #Dare #Experiments

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?
-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Stories #Short Story #Experiments

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.
-- Enrico Fermi

#Discovery #Predictions #Experiments

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
-- Erasmus Darwin

#Men #Fool #Experiments

A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.
-- Erasmus Darwin

#Fool #Made #Experiments

The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.
-- Eric Ries

#Goal #Vision #Experiments

Now I know what the atom looks like.
-- Ernest Rutherford

#Atoms #Looks #Experiments

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.
-- Ernst Mach

#Investigation #Bottom #Experiments

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
-- F. Murray Abraham

#Way #Working It #Experiments

Every runner is an experiment of one.
-- George A. Sheehan

#Inspirational #Runners #Experiments

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.
-- Gregory Benford

#Chemistry #Experiments

The death penalty experiment has failed.
-- Harry A. Blackmun

#Death Penalty #Penalties #Experiments

An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.
-- Hermann Bondi

#Moving #Nebula #Experiments

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
-- Imre Lakatos

#Theory #Relation #Experiments

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
-- Isaac Stern

#Failure #Grows #Experiments

Life is too short not to experiment.
-- Jamelia

#Life Is Too Short #Life Is Short #Experiments

I didn’t just experiment with ***** – if you know what I mean.
-- James Carville

#Mean #Marijuana #Experiments

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work
-- Jeff Bezos

#Inspirational #Going To Work #Experiments

I like to try anything... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.
-- Jerry Seinfeld

#Trying #Formulas #Experiments

Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.
-- Johannes Kepler

#Experiments

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
-- John Pilger

#War #Vietnam #Experiments

The Obama experiment has failed
-- John Thune

#Experiments

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
-- John Wilmot

#Interest #Expenses #Experiments

There is no right answer except to play and experiment.
-- Jonathan Adler

#Play #Answers #Experiments

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
-- Julian Casablancas

#Band #Experiments

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.
-- Justus von Liebig

#Fun #Theory #Experiments

One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
-- Karlheinz Stockhausen

#Results #Experiments

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.
-- Kathy Ireland

#Experiments

Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Hair #Colour #Experiments

I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.
-- Louis Pasteur

#Giving #Speech #Experiments

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
-- Madonna Ciccone

#Art #Self Love #Experiments

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments
-- Manly Hall

#Philosopher #Chemicals #Experiments

We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future
-- Marge Piercy

#Trying #Experiments

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.
-- Martin Fleischmann

#Worthwhile #Experiments #Plenty

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
-- Max Planck

#Mean #Imagination #Experiments

I consider all my films experiments.
-- Michael Haneke

#Film #Experiments

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
-- Niels Bohr

#People #Copenhagen #Experiments

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
-- Orson Welles

#Accomplishment #Experiments

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
-- Rafael Correa

#Assuming #Power Corrupts #Experiments

Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.
-- Raimon Panikkar

#Adventure #Cosmic #Experiments

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.
-- Ralph Steadman

#Art #Half #Experiments

All life is an experiment.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Inspirational #Life Is #Experiments

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
-- Samuel Gompers

#People #Dangerous #Experiments

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.
-- Scott Berkun

#Experiments #Expected

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Fit #Hours #Experiments

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
-- Thomas Malthus

#Philosophy #Theory #Experiments

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
-- W. G. Sebald

#Mean #Reader #Experiments

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
-- W. G. Sebald

#Rabbits #Experiments

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.
-- Walt Disney

#Experiments #Stills

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.
-- Walt Disney

#Feelings #Experiments

Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
-- Werner Heisenberg

#Experiments

no one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
-- William Beveridge

#Believe #Hypothesis #Experiments

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Chance #Experiments

Just as thought experiments can't show that vitalism is true (or that it is false), they also can't show that dualism is true (or that it is false).
-- Elliott Sober

#Shows #Experiments #Dualism

I think there's a lot of people who are afraid to experiment with clothing because they're afraid to get judged or ridiculed.
-- Ian Astbury

#Thinking #People #Experiments

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Mother #Experiments

The euro is a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.
-- Matteo Salvini

#Currency #Experiments #Euro

The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.
-- Paul Singer

#Lines #Bottom #Experiments

The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.
-- Wolfgang Sachs

#Would Be #Development #Experiments

To be a poet you have to experiment.
-- Matthea Harvey

#Poet #Experiments

Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.
-- Francesco Redi

#Belief #Vain #Experiments

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
-- Ronald Fisher

#Examination #Experiments #Posts

The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.
-- Ronald Fisher

#Done #Plans #Experiments

The show, like everything we have done and still do, is just one more experiment.
-- Thomas Bangalter

#Done #Shows #Experiments

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design
-- Verner Panton

#Design #Important #Experiments