Experiments are intended to teach, and not to mystify.
--
on the experiments used in his lectures on Galvanism. William Sturgeon (1843). A Course of Twelve Elementary Lectures on Galvanism. London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. p. 33-34.William Sturgeon
» William Sturgeon - all quotes »
Teach us that wealth is not elegance; that profusion is not magnificence; and that splendour is not beauty. Teach us that taste is a talisman which can do greater wonders than the millions of the loanmonger. Teach us that to vie is not to rival, and to imitate not to invent. Teach us that pretension is a bore. Teach us that wit is excessively good-natured, and, like champagne, not only sparkles, but is sweet. Teach us the vulgarity of malignity. Teach us that envy spoils our complexions, and that anxiety destroys our figure.
Benjamin Disraeli
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Garrison Keillor
It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison
Once I undertook the analysis of a problem, I often looked at it from a variety of perspectives. I approached the problem as a series of thought experiments — unlike many other sciences, we typically cannot do actual experiments.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Sturgeon, William
Stuyvesant, Peter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z