{"quotes":[{"text":"Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word 'experiment' in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?","author":"Bernadette Pajer","tags":["expendable","experiment","failure","power"],"id":550,"author_id":"Bernadette+Pajer"},{"text":"[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only into what it itself produces according to its own design; that it must take the lead with principles for its judgments according to constant laws and compel nature to answer its questions, rather than letting nature guide its movements by keeping reason, as it were, in leading-strings; for otherwise accidental observations, made according to no previously designed plan, can never connect up into a necessary law, which is yet what reason seeks and requires. Reason, in order to be taught by nature, must approach nature with its principles in one hand, according to which alone the agreement among appearances can count as laws, and, in the other hand, the experiments thought in accordance with these principles - yet in order to be instructed by nature not like a pupil, who has recited to him whatever the teacher wants to say, but like an appointed judge who compels witnesses to answer the questions he puts to them. Thus even physics owes the advantageous revolution in its way of thinking to the inspiration that what reason would not be able to know of itself and has to learn from nature, it has to seek in the latter (though not merely ascribe to it) in accordance with what reason itself puts into nature. This is how natural science was first brought to the secure course of a science after groping about for so many centuries.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["constructivism","critical-turn","empiricism","experiment","laws","modern-science","nature","necessity","philosophy","physics","rational-principles","reason","science","system","understanding"],"id":6179,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems,' because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless. Many of the traditional problems of philosophy, of religion, or of ethics, are of this character. Consider, for example, the problem of the freedom of the will. You maintain that you are free to take either the right- or the left-hand fork in the road. I defy you to set up a single objective criterion by which you can prove after you have made the turn that you might have made the other. The problem has no meaning in the sphere of objective activity; it only relates to my personal subjective feelings while making the decision.","author":"Percy Williams Bridgman","tags":["decisions","determinism","ethics","experiment","falsifiability","falsifiable","feelings","free-will","meaning","nobel-laureate","objective","philosophy","proof","questions","religion","science","scientific","subjective"],"id":7513,"author_id":"Percy+Williams+Bridgman"},{"text":"The true method of knowledge is experiment.","author":"William Blake","tags":["true","experiment","method "],"id":19058,"author_id":"William+Blake"},{"text":"See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.","author":"Galileo Galilei","tags":["examine","experiment","science","truth"],"id":29019,"author_id":"Galileo+Galilei"},{"text":"DON'T TELL YOUR SECRETS.A whisper can betray you.DON'T EVER STOP.They will always find you.DON'T TRUST ANYONE.Not even yourself.","author":"Michelle Gagnon","tags":["betray","experiment","persefone","run","secrets","trust","whisper"],"id":37998,"author_id":"Michelle+Gagnon"},{"text":"Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["amendments","amends","apologetic","betterment","change","constitution","democracy","erroneous","error","experiment","freedom","human-experiment","justice","peace","realization","republic","science","slavery"],"id":55676,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"},{"text":"As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["creativity","education","experiment"],"id":67828,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"},{"text":"The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.","author":"Dwight L. Moody","tags":["character","experiment","proof","truth"],"id":68727,"author_id":"Dwight+L.+Moody"},{"text":"Theories might inspire you, but experiments will advance you.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["action","actions","advance","advancement","elevate","experiment","experiments","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","progress","success","taking-action","theoretical","theories","theory","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":72406,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":92,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}