Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Musically, I always wanted to experiment.

  

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• Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.

  

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• Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.

  

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• In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
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• The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
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• Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

  

  Charles Handy
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• Green Screen was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

  

  Drew Carey
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• The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

  

  William H. Macy
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• What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

  

  Hermann Hesse
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• You can be spontaneous in another way because you don’t have the time pressures. If you have a lot of time, you can fool around of stuff. If we have time pressures, it’s like back-to-back work. When you have more time, you can experiment a little bit more. That’s a very good thing.

  

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• With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
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• This is the payoff for us, to be on the road. To be on stage and see the kids hungry for the music, to see them excited. That's why we do this.

  

  Dan Donegan Disturbed
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• Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
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• Signing to a major label was an experiment for us. It was a challenge: working in a big studio with a producer was a challenge in a lot of ways. It all shaped what the band went on to become through the '90s. After we made 'Goo,' we went out and toured with Neil Young in ice hockey arenas for three months, and that was the same kind of thing.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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• I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.

  

  Oliver Sykes Bring Me the Horizon
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• My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.

  

  Oona Chaplin
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• The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning.

  

  Erno Rubik
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  • Layers

• All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Men
  • Women
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• Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.

  

  Rabbi Akiva

• Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Experiment
  • Creditors
  • Payoff