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The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.
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John Barton The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record. Johnny Winter The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions. John Barton The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases. Werner Heisenberg The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. Philip Zimbardo The true method of knowledge is experiment. William Blake The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. Claude Bernard The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. Thomas Huxley The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. Gregor Mendel The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy. Tommy Franks The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star. Francis William Aston There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. P. D. James There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. Emily Greene Balch To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment. Robert Barany Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war. John Pilger We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. James Madison We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs. Jared Diamond 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 |
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