Thought Experiments Quotes

#1. If you want to understand the nature of something, to find out the truth, that is one thing. If you want to play semantics, make up wild thought 'experiments', that is another thing. I am not so interested in the latter, though I do appreciate that it can be fun, however unproductive.

Patricia Churchland

#2. None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How would you turn Pride and Prejudice into a video game?' and 'If you added a button to Pac-Man, what would you want it to do?' Conundrums like 'How come when Mario jumps he can change direction in midair?

Austin Grossman

#3. One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Rudy Rucker

#4. Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experiments." You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment.

Edward De Bono

#5. Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.

Brian Stableford

#6. You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!

Niels Bohr

#7. But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know
The first cut is the deepest.

Cat Stevens

#8. Life for me is just a result of experiments being performed by far more developed creatures.

Hasil Paudyal

#9. I thought we stopped using grunts as guinea pigs decades ago. Even the Nazis didn't run medical experiments on their own troops in combat. This book explodes like a grenade in the Pentagon's privy. Red it and weep; better yet, get mad."

Col. David H. Hackworth (U.S. Army, ret.)

Gary Matsumoto

#10. I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.

Jewel

#11. For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

Arthur Sullivan

#12. In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

James Blake

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

Charles K. Kao

#14. I've never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.

Hiroshi Amano

#15. The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be ...

Antoine Lavoisier

#16. Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.

Jimenez Lai

#17. Jesus
if Kilgore Trout could only write! Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.

Celia Rees

#19. Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

William Shakespeare

#20. Because with time, faith, and love ... even our scars can become beautiful.

Lauren Scruggs

#21. Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#22. A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

Gladys Taber

#23. What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

Ernst Mach

#24. I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.

Henry Rollins

#25. Strap a piece of toast -buttered side up- to the back of a cat. Throw the cat out of the window.
Will the cat land on its feet or will Murphy's law apply?

Alan Fletcher

#26. If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.

Marcel Duchamp

#27. Up to about thirty years ago, it was thought that protons and neutrons were "elementary" particles, but experiments in which protons were collided with other protons or electrons at high speeds indicated that they were in fact made up of smaller particles.

Stephen Hawking

#28. One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

Donald Hall

#29. Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.

Alfred Korzybski