Experiments Quotes - Page 34

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

  Chris Hadfield

  Culture, Humans, Spaceflight

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Mother, Animal, Cuckoos

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• The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Ignorance, Light, Simplicity

  Thomas Chalmers (1836). “Works”, p.314

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• It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Facts, Overwhelmed, Ends

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• The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in light of our experiences. No theory emerges in full detail overnight; the dominant theories of our day have expanded and changed over many decades. That it will take time should not discourage us. That we might fail to pursue our ideas - given the enormous need for them in society today - is unconscionable.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Thinking, Light, Ideas

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• Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Men, Discovery

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt I, Ch. 2, Sect. III

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• We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Views, Needs

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• From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

  Jimmy Page

  Mean, Thinking, Guitar

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• How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with] both parties, it's beyond belief.

  Lewis Black

  Real, Party, Long

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Wish, Demand, Facts

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Guy, Roles, Firsts

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Holiday, Epic, Hands

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• You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's noisy - but for you it's fun, you're resting. You're actually doing experiments... Just tell your parents that they're experiments, and you want to become a scientist, and then they won't stop you from doing anything you want.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fun, Dirty, Parent

  "Neil Degrasse Tyson Responds To Six-Year-Old – 'How Can First Graders Help The Earth?'". Neil deGrasse Tyson's speech at the NDT lecture at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, lybio.net. November 14, 2014.

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• 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, Permanent

  "This much I know". Interview With Lucy Siegle, October 2, 2005.

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• The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Spiritual, Self

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• The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Mind, Next

  Bertrand Russell (2001). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.115, Psychology Press

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• If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Government, America, Looks

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• In politics experiments means revolutions.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mean, Government, Revolution

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.505, Delphi Classics

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• The Obama experiment has failed.

  John Thune

  "Thune Claims 'Obama Experiment Has Failed'". www.foxnews.com. October 23, 2010.

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• It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Would Be, Moral

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• I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us. This freedom is the fundamental strength of our unique experiment in government. In the complex interplay of forces and considerations that go into the making of our laws and policies, its preservation must be a pervasive and dominant concern.

  Mario

  Believe, Unique, Law

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• The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

  Steve Stockman

  School, Law, Abiding

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• The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

  Dan Ariely

  Temptation, Failing, Shows

  "Why We Lie, Go To Prison And Eat Cake". Interview with Joanna Pearlstein, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

  Dan Ariely

  Data, Decision, Tools

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• The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Running, Play, Creating

  "Science on stage: from profound theories to West End hits" by Marcus du Sautoy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2013.

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