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• Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea - and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness.

  Rajneesh

  Ideas, Brain, Mind

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• America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

  Brent Scowcroft

  America, Democracy, States

  "The more intelligence I read, the more conservative I become" by George Brandis, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2014.

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• In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Facts, Behavior, Quantum

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• For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

  Edward Dowden

  Littles, Cynicism, Poet

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• We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Ice, Design

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• From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Ice Cream, Swag, Eating

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• I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Eye, Winter, Years

  "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, Decemebr 11, 1952.

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• Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

  Matt Blunt

  Stupid, Years, Four

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• We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food.

  Linda M. Godwin

  Home, Growth, Crystals

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• If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

  Andy Garcia

  Want, Temporary, Ifs

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• Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

  Robert Barany

  Hands, Two, Arms

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• Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

  Walther Bothe

  Energy, Negative, Conservation

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

  Thomas Malthus

  Philosophy, Economy, Theory

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.11, eKitap Projesi

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• My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

  Simon Newcomb

  Psychology, Way, Fields

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

  Zaha Hadid

  Appreciated, Proportion, Dare

  "Zaha Hadid and United Nude Unveil the nOVa Shoe" by Becky Quintal, www.archdaily.com. July 5, 2013.

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• The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

  Thomas Huxley

  Faith, Believe, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Math, Science, Needs

  Quoted in N.T. Bailey's The Mathematical Approach to Biology and Medicine Chapter 2 (p. 23)

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• Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Experience, Judgment

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

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• I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.

  Martha Stewart

  Taste, Dessert, Guilty

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• The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiences [experiments] and then to proceed slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

  Isaac Newton

  Philosophy, Science, Experience

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• Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Laughter, Mad

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• 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

  Yield, Data, Tests

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• The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

  Charles Kettering

  Jobs, Work, Failure

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• It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Going To Work, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

  Richard Ernst

  Believe, Artist, Feelings

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