Experimentation Quotes - Page 3

• This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Fascination, Population, Medical

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Fragmentation is like classful addressing - an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.

  Paul Vixie

  Errors, Interesting, Shows

  NANOG mailing list, 2000.

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• A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs!

  William Kunstler

  Animal, Names, Eggs

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• Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

  Steve Albini

  Doubt, Reason, Conventional Wisdom

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• There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Art, Point Break, Limits

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• We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

  Newton N. Minow

  Creativity, People, Imagination

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Men, Ideas, Excess

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• It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.

  Andrew Mason

  People, Figures

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• Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Errors, Trial And Error

  "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.

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• For me, experimentation is not about the technology. In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

  Ze Frank

  Art, Technology, Keys

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• I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.

  Myles Horton

  Thinking, Ideas, Work Out

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• The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  War, Animal, Long

  Jon Wynne-Tyson (1972). “The Civilised Alternative: A Pattern for Protest”

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• Most animal experimentation is useless.

  Henry Heimlich

  Animal, Useless, Cruelty

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• Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.

  Jon Evans

  Pain, Animal, Men

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• Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Animal, Suffering, Benefits

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• Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied directly to human beings who vary widely in their hereditary make-up, in their environment, and in their past health record.

  John Boyd Orr

  Animal, Past, Records

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• Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

  Alexis Carrel

  Animal, Soul, World

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• Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

  John Cowper Powys

  Wise, Pain, Animal

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• The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Animal, Research, Disease

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• Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Hurt, Drug Use, Uprising

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

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• Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their course and to experiment with them. "On earth," said Laplace, "we make phenomena vary by experiments; in the sky, we carefully define all the phenomena presented to us by celestial motion." Certain physicians call medicine a science of observations, because they wrongly think that experimentation is inapplicable to it.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Thinking, Sky

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

  Tim Robbins

  New York, Doe, Theater

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• Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Taste, Ethical, Animal Experimentation

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.78, Penguin UK

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• It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

  Stanislav Grof

  People, Psychedelic, Complicated

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• The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Animal, Practice

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