28 Metaphors for experimenting

My experiments aren't the kind that can be conducted in a back bedroom.

" This experimenting is one side of a child's play, and the things with which he thus experiments are his toys, or, as Froebel puts it, "play material."

A few old rags were at length rummaged out of the little receptacle of food, clothing, and dirt in the bow of the boat, and cast into the waves For a moment all flattered themselves that the experiment had been successfulthe sail fluttered, swelled a little, and then flapped idly down against the mast.

These experiments, their nature, the manner in which they were conducted, the character and age of the experimenter, and the results claimed, were exquisitely good stuff for ridicule.

This experiment is her forlorn hope.

The Experiment should be no robbing of collective Peter to pay individual Paul.

the experiment is no longer an experiment, and the fact is proven that men may fight and work together to their mutual profit and advancement.

Suffice it to say that it has been done, and can be done again; but it needs discretion, forethought, tact, earnestness, and unimpeachable honesty of administration, for unless we can depend upon our school boards and kindergartners implicitly, counting upon them for wise coöperation, brooding care, and great wisdom in selection of teachers, the experiment will be a failure.

An experiment is a trial; we cannot try a trial.

Thus every real inference is an experiment, and 'proof' is an affair of continuous trial and verificationnot an infinite falling back upon an elusive 'certainty,' but an infinite reaching forwards towards a fuller consummation.

I am glad to state that I was right, and that, maybe through the uncertainties and the lessons of those who had spread the illusions, the Italian Socialists returned from Russia were bound to recognize that the communist experiment was the complete ruin of the Russian people.

I EXPERIMENTS There are two separate processes going on among the civilized nations at the present time.

Thus the ideal of a true republic, of a government of laws made and executed by the people, of which bards have sung and prophets dreamed, and for which martyrs have suffered and heroes died, may yet be possible to us, and the great experiment of this Western World be indeed a Model, instead of a Warning to the nations.

If that be not so, we have neither a flag nor a country,we can neither contract a debt nor make a treaty,we have neither honor abroad nor strength at home,our experiment of free government is a blunder and a failure, and for us, "Chaos has come again.

The experiments of Henry Ford are a step toward the same solution.

Dryden's first experiment in this drama was the Rival Ladies, in which the tragic portions are composed in rhyme, blank verse being reserved for the parts approaching comedy.

The English experiment on which the Proportional Representation Society mainly relies is an imaginary election, held in November 1906 by means of ballot papers distributed through members and friends of the society and through eight newspapers.

This experiment was at all events of such a nature as to indicate the use of these machines in cases where the arrangement of the locality absolutely necessitates a transmission of power.

From his point of view the experiment was by no means a success, his efforts to be natural being met with amazed glances from Mr. Letts and disdainful requests from Miss Foster to go home if he couldn't behave himself.

Another curious but isolated experiment is Cintio's Egle, in intent a revival of the 'satyric' drama of the Greeks, in substance a dramatization of the motive of Sannazzaro's Salices.

My next experiment was a mixture of equal quantities of the expressed juice with glycerin.

Another curious but isolated experiment is Cintio's Egle, in intent a revival of the 'satyric' drama of the Greeks, in substance a dramatization of the motive of Sannazzaro's Salices.

Put the case in the opposite light, it is just as absurd: the man who has money to spare, must needs make the experiment whether it may not become the property of another.

But even this experiment, whatever might have been its effects abroad, served to confirm his renown at home.

The first who made the Experiment was a Merry-Andrew, who was put into my Hands by a neighbouring Justice of Peace, in order to reclaim him from that profligate kind of Life.

28 Metaphors for  experimenting