Experiment Quotes

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

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein

Single, Wrong, Prove

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

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Actions, Timid

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

Selfish, Fail, Aim

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

Live, Trying, Living

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Andrew Jackson

Successful, Corruption, Country

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud

Success, America, Afraid

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.
Richard P. Feynman

Beautiful, Smart, Wrong

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
Eric Schmidt

Humanity, Understand, Internet

The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake

Knowledge, True, Method

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.
Galileo Galilei

Science, Reason, Themselves

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature, Hard, Trying

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana

Life, Happiness, Mad

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Thomas Huxley

Authority, Ultimate, Court

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
James Madison

Alarm, Liberties

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells

America, Working, Else

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
Philip Zimbardo

Life, Understand, Students

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
Alan Keyes

Government, Before, Tax

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
Erwin Schrodinger

Between, Meaning, Process

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
David Cronenberg

Life, Live, Trying

When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.
Jerry Saltz

Time, Good, Wrong

Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
Jerry Saltz

Good, Money, Art

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
Charles Ives

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
Condoleezza Rice

History, Successful, Political

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
Glenn Beck

Freedom, Stupid, Giving

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, Men, Live

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Ernest Rutherford

Done, Needs, Statistics

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering

Work, Job, Trying

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
Dimebag Darrell

Bored, Same, Playing

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