Quotes of Experiment - somelinesforyou

“ Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. ”

- Charles Darwin

“ There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. ”

- P. D. James

“ We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. ”

- James Madison

“ 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 Feynman

“ An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable. ”

- Peter Singer

“ I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing. ”

- Pete Conrad

“ Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving. ”

- David Ogilvy

“ Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time. ”

- Steven Wright

“ To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ”

- Ronald Fisher

“ The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us… ”

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

“ You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ”

- Denis Diderot

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

- George Santayana

“ It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it and didn't inhale and never tried it again. ”

- Gov. Bill Clinton

“ Why think? Why not try the experiment? ”

- John Hunter

“ 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

“ Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven. ”

- Colin Turnbull

“ A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. ”

- Nikola Tesla

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

- Albert Einstein

“ America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. ”

- H.G. Wells

“ Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. ”

- Herbert A. Otto

“ Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ”

- Mary Lou Cook
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