Quotes for All
We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments? … Read more
The nation’s first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution. G. Edward Griffin
Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise. Evgeny Morozov
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment. Evan Esar
Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once. Eva Gabor
How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk–experiment–is a considerable part of the joy of doing. Eudora Welty
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
What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation. Ernst Mach
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact. Ernst Mach
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment, can we hope to attain to a comprehension of ‘the wisdom of the body and the understanding of the heart,’ and thereby to the mastery of disease and pain, which … Read more