Experiment Quotes

• I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.

  

  Brian Henson
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Experiment

• Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • King
  • Kingdom
  • Imagined

• We almost owe it to ourselves to go experiment in the consumer area.

  

  Rajeev Suri
  • Ourselves
  • Consumers
  • Experiment

• There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was 'style' and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatus, just as a mathematical proof derived neatly was better than one involving laborious calculations. Rutherford's first disintegration experiment, and Chadwick's discovery of the neutron had a 'style' that is different from that of experiments made with giant accelerators.

  

  J. A. Ratcliffe
  • Science
  • Style
  • Experiment

• I like to experiment with my voice, besides music.

  

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Experiment

• 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
  • Nature
  • Human being
  • Experiment

• Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world... That in itself gives you a different perspective.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • My Life
  • I Love
  • Touring

• How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Art
  • Way
  • Hard

• Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Experiment
  • Masses
  • History Of The World

• It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

  

  Isaac Stern
  • Failure
  • Grow
  • Experiment

• I don't like it when filmmakers say, 'Just come like this, sir.' I like to experiment with my makeup. I wish more filmmakers let me do that.

  

  Radha Ravi
  • Makeup
  • Experiment
  • Filmmakers

• Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Experiment
  • Deadline
  • Context

• Our assumption is that God has not revealed all there is to know in the spiritual area any more than he has in these other areas. We, therefore, need to experiment in this area and, like scientists who work in other areas, develop and test theories in order to gain greater understanding

  

  Charles H. Kraft
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Develop

• What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Experiment
  • Investigation

• The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants in the biggest experiment humans have ever done: moving CO2 levels to twice their value in the past 670.000 years and hoping it turns out okay for generations to come.

  

  Nathan Lewis
  • Challenge
  • Humans
  • Hoping

• I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Music
  • Experiment
  • Bass

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

  

  Steve Stockman
  • Schools
  • Experiment
  • Disarming

• I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Worry
  • Speed
  • Physics

• We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Life
  • Chemical
  • Alchemical

• Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

  

  Monica Raymund
  • Change
  • Sometimes
  • Figure

• This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.

  

  Andrzej Stasiuk
  • Experiment
  • Modernity

• To me, the most exciting thing about the discovery of the Higgs particle is that its existence was predicted fifty years before its discovery through experiment.

  

  Ashoke Sen
  • Discovery
  • Experiment
  • Particle

• Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Experiment
  • Inventor
  • Translating

• What really happened was one day in my late five I went out and I found my dad in the garage staining some wood because sometimes he makes furniture for the house. I said, "Could I experiment a little bit?" and he said sure so I experimented and I realized that it's so fun! You can express yourself, you can use your imagination, and in just that little time I wanted to change the world for the better. After that wonderful experience I thought, how about painting?

  

  Autumn de Forest
  • Fun
  • House
  • Painting

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