It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.
How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.
Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.
The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.
any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
There is no right answer except to play and experiment.
A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
Life is too short not to experiment.
The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.
There was some sort of maze-learning experiment involved in my final grade and since I remember the rat who was my colleague as uncooperative, or perhaps merely incompetent at being a rat, or tired of the whole thing, I don't remember how I passed.
I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment
If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the specific location, to use decorative patterns from this location, that's a rule. That's a set of patterns that you can apply to all societies. But what gives rise or what comes out of each experiment is so radically different.