Experiment Quotes

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
David Cronenberg
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. View quote
George Santayana
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. View quote
Herbert Hoover
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. View quote
Thomas Malthus
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. View quote
Ronald Fisher
The true method of knowledge is experiment. View quote
William Blake
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? View quote
H. G. Wells
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. (Buckminster Fuller)
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. View quote
Orson Welles
It is not possible to design a laboratory resource allocation experiment without designing an institution in all its detail. View quote
Vernon L. Smith
We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed. View quote
Glenn Beck
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. View quote
Charles Lamb
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ. View quote
Frances Wright
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. (Ernest Rutherford)
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. View quote
Sigmund Freud
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. View quote
Albert Einstein
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. View quote
Albert Einstein
Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting. View quote
Aubrey de Grey