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Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

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

Fall forward. Here’s what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career – the most in the history of baseball. But you don’t hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn’t either – because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

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?

All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in the whole system of laws of physics that cannot be deduced unambiguously from epistemological considerations.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate to single particles, and who cannot repeat their experiments often enough to obtain any but the most probable results.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Education is the great American adventure, the world’s most colossal democratic experiment.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

We want to believe we are good, we are different, we are better, or we are superior. But this body of social-psychological research–and there are obviously many more experiments in addition to mine and Milgram’s–shows that the majority of good, ordinary, normal people can be easily seduced, tempted, or initiated into behaving in ways that they say they never would. In 30 minutes we got them stepping across that line.

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day.

It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.

[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an ‘experiment with trust’ (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual’s self-identity. (…) In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

I’m ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.