experiment quotes

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

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.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.