Quotes about Experiment

We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.

The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an inexorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says Yes to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says Maybe, and in the great majority of cases simply No. If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter Maybe, and if it does not agree it means No. Probably every theory will someday experience its No - most theories, soon after conception.

Szale?stwo: wykonywanie tej samej czynno?ci bez ko?ca i spodziewanie si?, ?e da to odmienne rezultaty.

Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.

Doing for people what they can, and ought to do for themselves, is a dangerous experiment," the great labor leader Samuel Gompers said. "In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative." The classic "liberal" believed individuals should be masters of their own destiny and the least government is the best government; these are precepts of freedom and self-reliance that are at the root of the American way and the American spirit.

If Hegel had written the whole of his logic and then said, in the preface or some other place, that it was merely an experiment in thought in which he had even begged the question in many places, then he would certainly have been the greatest thinker who had ever lived. As it is, he is merely comic.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

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