Experiment
Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.
Experience.
To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.
To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience.
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Experiment Quotations
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud
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 true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake
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
Experiment Translations
experiment in Afrikaans is eksperiment
experiment in Danish is eksperiment
experiment in Dutch is experimenteren
experiment in German is Experiment, Versuch, Experiment
experiment in Norwegian is eksperiment
experiment in Spanish is experimento
experiment in Swedish is experimentera, experiment, prov
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