Experiment Quotes

• 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 bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.

  

  Paul Singer
  • Experiment
  • Failed
  • Euro

• My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

  

  Simon Newcomb
  • Psychology
  • Experiment
  • Undertaking

• We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Future

• 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

• 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

• I usually experiment with posture and physical attributes that may inform the character. Next, my impression gets a nice injection of inspiration when the costumes arrive and I can see his silhouette in the mirror. Then I go memorize all the lines and try and connect each line to a thought I think he might have. Then I show up on the day, wait my turn, and when the director calls "action," I trust that I have done enough work on my impression that I can just believe it strongly enough to play with abandon from inside that character.

  

  Bryce Pinkham
  • Character
  • Experiment
  • Posture

• Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

  

  Gary Player
  • Mind
  • Experiment
  • Equipment

• To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

  

  Steve Erickson
  • Fiction
  • Interested
  • Experiment

• 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

• Continued experiment with dog today.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Today
  • Dog
  • Experiment

• Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Government
  • Successful

• I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my mind. I change the structure, I make improvements, I experiment, I run the device in my mind. It is absolutely the same to me whether I operate my turbine in thought or test it actually in my shop. It makes no difference, the results are the same. In this way, you see, I can rapidly develop and perfect an invention, without touching anything.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Change
  • Build
  • Develop

• I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

  

  Ranveer Brar
  • Creativity
  • Experiment

• My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.

  

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke
  • Relationship
  • Generation
  • Experiment

• Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Stars
  • Television
  • Aspects

• In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

  

  Ben Bova
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Fiction

• We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Death
  • Fight
  • Experiment

• 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

• What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.

  

  Nathan Seiberg
  • Success
  • Experiment
  • Guarantee

• Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Control
  • Environment
  • Heredity

• I am in a space now where I can try anything; and with Pink Floyd we've always been in a space where we were able to try out anything. I think we were very young then and we were very keen to experiment and try things out. It seems to me that this sort of experimenting is like working yourself towards something and trying to find what you like and what you want.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Want
  • Space
  • Working

• Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

  

  Eva Gabor
  • Marriage
  • Experiment

• There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Experiment
  • Invent

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