Experimentation Quotes

• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Science, Power

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (11), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Abuse

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• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.476, Princeton University Press

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• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  Galileo Galilei

  Answers, Vex, Scripture

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• There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Creativity, Entrepreneur, Outcomes

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• There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Higher

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Errors, Ideas, Trial And Error

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Country, Mistake

  Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

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• Creativity is your best makeup skill, don't be afraid to experiment.

  Pat McGrath

  Motivational, Creativity, Makeup

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• I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Real, Looks

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• It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance

  Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

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• The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mistake, Needs

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Beautiful, Smart, Science

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• There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

  Denis Diderot

  Knowledge, Mean, Reflection

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

  Max Delbruck

  Science, Cells, Years

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• I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Self Love, Experiments

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

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• Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

  Orson Welles

  Business, Hollywood, Doe

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

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• Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

  Isaac Asimov

  Knowledge, Science, Arrogance

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• I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

  S. Robson Walton

  Dad, Important, Trying

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• There is always room in our budget for a little experimentation.

  Beth Comstock

  Littles, Rooms, Budgets

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• Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.

  Bill Gates

  Failure, Making Mistakes, Rewards

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• The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

  Simon Sinek

  Trying, Failing, Experiments

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2011

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• Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Observation, Passive

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