#experiments

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting. ↗

— Michael Medved

#business #casting #colorblind #experiments #movie

These bizarre examples attempt to prove one conceptual point or another by deliberately reducing all but one underappreciated feature of some phenomenon to zero, so that what really counts can shine through. The twin earth example sets internal similarity to a maximum (you are whisked off to Twin Earth without being given a chance to register this huge shift) so that external context can be demonstrated to be responsible for whatever our intuition tells us. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#experience

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. ↗

— William Gilbert

#common #conjectures #demonstrated #discovery #experiments

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

— Rudy Rucker

#carry #experiments #fiction #lets #nice

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#clear #decided #experiments #go #happen

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones. ↗

— Huston Smith

#came #experiments #false #gave #hypotheses

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#country #distribution #experiments #failed #forcible

One experiments and has to choose always the best results. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#best #choose #experiments #results

Cheryl's growing awareness of her emotional difficulties was leading her to research multiple personality. As she had learned more about dissociation, she realised just how severe the abuse had been and how much she had been hurt. Her mind had dissociated to assure survival during the abuse by her father and it had been forced to dissociate by various researchers in government programmes. ↗

— Cheryl Hersha

#child-abuse #child-rape #dissociation #dissociative #dissociative-identity-disorder