“ No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast. ”
- W.S. Gilbert- Copy
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“ We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. ”
- Edmund Husserl- Copy
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“ Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. ”
- Talcott Parsons- Copy
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“ I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions… like a state of sheer terror. ”
- William K. Hartmann- Copy
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“ I've spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
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“ I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz. ”
- Nelly Furtado- Copy
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“ What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended. ”
- John C. Lilly- Copy
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“ The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental. ”
- Leopold Stein- Copy
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“ A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
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“ I see myself as traditional even though I know you see my work as experimental. I don't really consider Sterne, Joyce, and Proust experimental either because the tradition of their writing goes back a long way. Traditional. The Grand Tradition. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place. ”
- Donald Davis- Copy
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“ It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system. ”
- Talcott Parsons- Copy
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“ The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ I must have done something right because they gave me a grant to the Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Drama in 1983. But I hated all that stuff they taught me while thumping out the rawness and energy I had. I went off and formed a small experimental, often political, theatre company called Rain Dog to unlearn it. ”
- Robert Carlyle- Copy
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“ The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water. He found that captive white-footed mice spent inordinate time and energy just resisting experimental manipulation. If the experimenters turned the lights up, the mouse spent his time turning them down… ”
- Martin E. P. Seligman- Copy
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