Experiments Quotes

You can't just sit around and do nothing while you're waiting - you have to kind of piggyback on some experiments so you can generate data. But when you get it, there is no feeling like it in the world. - Caroline Whitacre

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. - Albert Camus

You can sit down at a computer, and you can design experiments, and you can see the performance of this thing, and then you can figure out why it's done what it's done... You're not going to recognize the full return of the biological revolution until you can simulate a living organism. - Michael Ellison

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. - John Poindexter

With a trustworthy computer model of combustion, engineers can design improved engines or fuel blends without needing to build and test so many different versions. The database of chemical reactions needed for such a computer program is too big to be filled in strictly with measured numbers, and we have to rely on chemical rate theory to calculate much of this database. Our experiments are important for showing how far we should trust these calculations. - Gregory Hall

Whether you are creating a disabled embryo or whether you might potentially damage an existing embryo, you risk that problem of crossing an ethical line when you move to human experiments. - David Prentice

When you put the clamp, the flat area and the cleaver together, you get a pretty good idea as to how Dicer works. We're now using this structural model to design experiments that might tell us what triggers Dicer into action. - Jennifer Doudna

When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players. - Wayne Coyne