| 单词 | experiment |
| 例句 | Isaac was unafraid of the rumors being thrown around about new factories where experiments were held and the danger that was coming. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z A methodology that has proved useful involves the comparative method and so-called natural experiments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Fine,” I said, “let us try your experiment.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The nine men spent then- time doing experiments that increased our knowledge of the sun, the surface of the earth, and the human body. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “As I was saying: We are going to use the scientific method to test these hypotheses. After every experiment, you will be required to write up your results.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Pecola, on the other hand, restricted by youth and sex, experimented with methods of endurance. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Natural experiments in any field, whether in ecology or human history, are inherently open to potential methodological criticisms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The experiment that led to writing Black Like Me was done at the very end of 1959, before the first “freedom rides” or any other manifestation of national concern about racial injustice. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Their experiment was thus a powerful new proof that DNA is the primary genetic material. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “A friend of mine desired me to offer—a story—just as an experiment—would like your opinion—be glad to write more if this suits.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a curious phenomenon, and Galileo passed the problem on to his assistant, Torricelli, who started doing experiments, trying to figure out the reason for the pumps’ curious limitation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If Brunelleschi wanted to experiment with depth of field, why not use a vanishing-point perspective, which would have been straightforward, and indeed familiar to him? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Swann assigned Lawrence to design an experiment to investigate the effect, acknowledging cheerfully that previous efforts all had yielded inconclusive results. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I just bet partnering me with Bernard is some devious experiment: what happens if we mix trouble-hating girl with bully boy? A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z There are enormous implications in Levanthal’s fear experiments and Wunderman’s work for Columbia Records for the question of how to start and tip social epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mendel had switched to plants and moved the experiments to the hothouse outside. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They did a great deal to liven up the atmosphere of the lab, where experiments usually lasted several months to years. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Elis experiment belonged to a different world entirely—a world light-years ahead of the floating disks and squat cylinders previous ancient authorities had imagined our planet to be. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z An experiment it seemed now, whose premise did not hold. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He thinks I’m here to steal the weapons that will reset the experiments, not deploy one of them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z None of this stopped Maria from continuing her experiments, however. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I experimented with potato skin tea a few weeks ago. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The next step was to repeat the experiment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There wasn’t even a moment, not even a second, in which Thyon Nero considered that the experiment might not fail. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Frank, who has let Gimpy take over the experiment, leans forward excitedly. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Jonas knew for a fact that it had been purchased by the Admiralty with a view to carrying out some very hush-hush experiments! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z What is new is the scientific community that is interested in experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Others, like Niko Tinbergen, another very famous early ethologist, do experiments out in the place where the animals live. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “So, what? I’m like a social experiment to you?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am hastening to let you know that the experiments on the production of high speed protons have been successful beyond our expectations,” Lawrence wrote to Dr. Frederick Gardner Cottrell on July 17. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence replied defensively that “the radio-sodium experiments were instigated by me alone,” adding, “I did suggest looking for artificial radioactivity this way and actively supervised the experiments.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I remember a lesson from my psychology class about an experiment in which volunteers were asked to torture people who were in another room by pressing a button that supposedly delivered an electric shock. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But the famous Michelson-Morley experiment demonstrated that such an aether does not exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lupin said calmly, as though they were in class, and Hermione had simply spotted a problem in an experiment with grindylows. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Dijksterhuis did another similar experiment, only this time in the real world. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But these were laboratory experiments, still a long way from practical application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Shu government had been capturing and experimenting on Grisha for years in an attempt to locate the source of their power. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I saw him move in my direction, ostensibly to make me take a turn performing his stupid experiment and instead I just stared at him, my face numb. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She enjoyed taking apart clocks and putting them back together again, cooking experiments, and horticulture, especially growing bonsai trees. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z My mom tells stories of how when she was little, my grandfather would keep experiments in the refrigerator. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Life is one big science experiment for Dad. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The plan is for Yelena to spend up to six months performing biophysics and medical experiments. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z He gets a chemistry set and does experiments down in the basement. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The experiment itself didn’t interest me, but his company was never boring. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Imagine,” Mrs. Branson said, “if you were no longer able to do your experiments. Or ask any more questions about the universe. How would that make you feel?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He pointed out different types of citrus trees, including some Frankenstein experiments of his own. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In Mendel’s experiments, every gene had behaved like an independent entity—a free agent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But he fully understood the consequences of his landmark experiment: “The problem bristles with implications....This is something that has long been the dream of geneticists.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And you can tell this because of an experiment which I saw on TV in a series called How the Mind Works. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “She came from this place. We sent her into the city when she was young to resolve a problem in the experiment.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I couldn’t wait to start experimenting, so after I got Marcus’s letter, I asked Grandma to take me to the grocery store again. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z For them, a vacuum was an impossibility, so all the experiments that appeared to establish the existence of such a thing were strange indeed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The intellectual apparatus of the new science—facts, experiments, theories, laws of nature, evidence—did not establish its worth by philosophical arguments; its success depended upon the fact that, in practice, it produced good results. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Our tiny group that year was a fifth/sixth grade class—this too was a school experiment. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Not that Boyle had any need to carry out all of the experiments himself. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Where did this distaste for experiment come from? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For my science project, I’m going to make a model of the moon’s surface and perform an experiment to infer how the moon’s impact craters were formed. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z There were also a dozen other experiments to keep us very busy for the remainder of the three days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Interesting experiment,” the driver said in an approving tone. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z The answer may be contained in recent laboratory experiments carried out by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Tired of living in a piano studio, she scouted out a much better apartment, with five rooms, a fireplace, and a sheltered porch where William could tinker and experiment with radios. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There isn’t enough time to think about the significance of what we’re going to try to do: stop a revolution, save the experiments, change the Bureau forever. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Insensitive to this change of meaning, scholars frequently translate the word experimentum in Latin texts as ‘experiment’, thus often giving a totally false impression of its meaning, which is commonly ‘experience’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Emma didn’t mind his experiments with her flowers or his forages into her sewing box for threads to use in his experiments. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And when Boyle coined the phrase experimentum crucis to honour the Puy-de-Dôme experiment he was marking the beginning of a new era in which philosophical disputes would be resolved by experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His science experiment was looking more and more worthless with each day that passed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But unlike many Pythagoreans, he believed in observation and experiment in the real world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What killed alchemy was the insistence that experiments must be openly reported in publications which presented a clear account of what had happened, and they must then be replicated, preferably before independent witnesses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The best way of communicating the experimental philosophy was through making it possible for people to see experiments performed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “My experiment has succeeded. The little girl’s gone—vanished—right out of the world.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z To the continuing exasperation of his fellow scientists, he often alluded in published work to the results of contingent experiments that he had not told anyone about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This was endured silently not only because of its family pedigree but also because Ernest so heartily endorsed the science underlying John’s experiments. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Morbidly interested in genetics and medical research, Mengele rose to become physician in chief at Auschwitz, where he unleashed a series of monstrous experiments on twins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Thus from 1660 on ‘experimental philosophy’ became a widely used label for a science relying on experiments; no one wrote of an ‘experiential philosophy’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Moriori and Maori history constitutes a brief, small-scale natural experiment that tests how environments affect human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Though his departure for Rio would limit him to only a night’s stay, he liked the idea of meeting the people who did clever biological experiments about DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z French has also acquired the word expérimentation, which is now sometimes used as if it were equivalent to ‘experiment’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And so the philosophers turned their minds to other things; later, no one could even remember the year in which they had performed this experiment, and no one wrote about it at the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And character mattered because the fate of the American experiment with republican government still required virtuous leaders to survive. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When Newton performed his experiment in 1666 it was probably deliberately designed to produce the elongated spectrum, an effect he describes as if were a complete surprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I was disallowed the use of the house’s library, for fear that liberty amongst the volumes there would allow me to study and so unfairly prejudice the results of the experiment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It is appropriate to introduce a few concepts when performing songs and games with children, and also to experiment with these concepts, such as changing tempos and dynamics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But de Vries also took his experiments further than Mendel. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Anything important would attract him, and he frequently visited other labs to see which new experiments had been done. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “The thing about experiments,” she said, “is that they have to be repeated or else they’re worthless.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “And I think we should use it against all four experiments.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He’s much taller than anyone else, because he’s part of a secret patriotic experiment. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was random doodles, but lately I’d been experimenting with graffiti—tagging, specifically—because some tagging techniques reminded me of highly stylized Persian calligraphy. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Griffith performed an experiment that, unwittingly, launched the molecular biology revolution. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He makes me feel that before the experiment I was not really a human being. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Others, too, were surely copying and testing Gilbert’s experiments, although no one else seems to have found a way of making money out of doing so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Our first job, after a hasty breakfast, was to find the old Agena, the one with the experiment package on it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z No scary movie, failed experiment, or broken cell phone came close to the fear now pumping my heart at a hundred thousand beats per minute. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The Ainu people of Japan made the experiment by routinely rearing grizzly cubs as part of a ritual. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her mother did this all the time with her experiments. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Breakfast comes to the dining room and the omelet is like a science experiment: is the lack of cheese explained by the mysterious holes that dot the alleged egg? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Lend me your dagger. I have a simple experiment that I wish to try on our prisoner. Come on.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z As the mathematicians turned their attention from observation to experiment, from astronomy to physics, they found they required a new set of intellectual tools, a new language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He sometimes uses watercolor, and experiments with using watercolor in chalk drawings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z First, before the experiment even started, they gave the students a questionnaire about why they had chosen to study theology. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of that day was spent experimenting with the simple sympathetic binding Abenthy had taught me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. B had always been there for me, ready to volunteer as one of my test subjects for my experiments or answer all my questions about space. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Boyle was right, however, to claim that his results were very similar to those previously obtained in experiments with barometers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The problem for the Aristotelians was that they could not fashion an explanation that would successfully predict the outcome of the Puy-de-Dôme experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Pascal’s interpretation of the experiment was in direct contradiction to Aristotle’s claim that nature abhors a vacuum. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Eleanor’s sister dwelt richly upon experiments she had heard these doctors did. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z In 1883, with rather grim determination, the German embryologist August Weismann had performed an experiment that directly attacked Darwin's gemmule theory of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “You are a side effect,” Van Houten continued, “of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z If I don’t press that button, the sluggers will simply collect a couple of breeding pairs and restart the human experiment on another planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In general, Goths wear black, hang out on the Net, experiment with androgynous looks, are sometimes drawn to piercings and tattoos with white makeup, and love Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, and the Cure. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Given the fact that DNA was known to occur in the chromosomes of all cells, Avery’s experiments strongly suggested that future experiments would show that all genes were composed of DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Guiffart is old-fashioned; Pascal does not argue like this, and even Guiffart has to admit at last that the experiments may in fact be unprecedented. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "Does that mean they do experiments and stuff?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Ever since Thomas had seen the words on the wall of the Maze— world in catastrophe, killzone experiment department—he’d been thinking about them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z But what is important to Gilbert is not just book learning, or even the performing of experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “We were all used to building one of something, and when it contributed to a million-dollar experiment, you hardly noticed the cost,” Gow said. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Galileo, for example, despite performing exquisite experiments, never fully grasped the power of the experimental method, dismissing Gilbert’s work as not sufficiently philosophical. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In Florence, however, Galileo’s disciple Torricelli heard in 1643 of Berti’s experiments and realized that he could simplify matters by using a denser liquid. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In a perfect world, an economist could run a controlled experiment just as a physicist or a biologist does: setting up two samples, randomly manipulating one of them, and measuring the effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But Galileo saw a deeper truth in the inclined plane experiments. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “So these experiments, will they include lab work?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Some hint of other drastic consequences of depriving a cell of oxygen can be seen in animal experiments on developing embryos. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She was being so un-Twig-like, paying attention to our science experiment, so I tuned them out and started doodling snowflakes and flowers in my notebook. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Jonathan Schooler—whom I introduced in the previous chapter—once did an experiment with Timothy Wilson that beautifully illustrates this difference. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He then slid in his notebook that had all his notes on the cornfield experiment. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Rosellini’s “experiment” stretched on for more than a decade, but eventually he felt the question that inspired it had been answered. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Pascal’s experiments of 1646, on the other hand, really did draw crowds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “So,” I ask casually, “what lab experiments have you been doing lately?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For the second half of the experiment, Dijksterhuis went to the furniture store IKEA, where people were making much more complicated and expensive purchases. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I’d done some more experimenting with cake flavors since then, but this recipe felt right for today, since it reminded me of the summer I first started writing to Marcus. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Theo was being patched up in the hospital emergency room after a slight miscalculation in his "solution" experiment. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Rush next began experimenting with the amount of blood he would remove from the body in an effort to reduce inflammation. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Boyle thought of an hypothesis as a useful step towards establishing the truth: a good hypothesis leads to novel predictions which can be tested by experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His ideas also led to the founding of a Society for Spaceship Travel, whose members tried experimenting with small liquid-propelled rockets which were generally recovered by parachutes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And how could anyone experiment on the unconscious, which, by definition, seemed to defy laboratory techniques of testing? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He performed alchemy experiments in the kitchen, filling the house with fetid smoke and ruining pots and pans with solid substances that stuck to their bottoms and were impossible to remove. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like an experiment gone terribly wrong—something from a nightmare. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Supermarkets in Denmark have experimented with adding a second bar code to packages of meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He had been unable to complete the experiments, he reported remorsefully. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Blaise Pascal was enthralled, and started performing experiments of his own, using water, wine, and other fluids. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You’ll stop them from resetting the experiment. I know you will.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Michelson-Morley experiments would hover unpleasantly, like a musty smell, in the background of scientific thought. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He was going to repeat his experiment and record its failure, and then he was going to bed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At times, moreover, I was quite pleased with my current experiments on bacterial viruses. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The scientific network is another term for that sociological reality: Pascal announced his discoveries to Mersenne’s network, and persuaded them that his facts were right by getting them to repeat his experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Yes. It’s about time for Nathan to go back to Phoenix. I can finish his science experiment, do the measurements, and send it to him,” Nali said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Griffith’s experiment may have stuffed genetics into a one-way taxicab and sent it scuttling toward a strange future—but Avery was reluctant to climb on that bandwagon. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But there is absolutely no evidence, other than Viviani’s account much later, to suggest that crowds gathered to watch Galileo’s early experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Of course, there is a second, equally valuable, lesson in the Maier experiment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Since colonial times, when European cultures came into contact with many Non-Western cultures, musicians on all sides have been experimenting with music that is a blend of "the best of both worlds." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Why pick so harsh a world for an experiment? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Della Porta was clearly intrigued, and if he did not actually perform a number of the experiments described by Garzoni which he claimed to have, it seems he did perform these particular experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The Bureau values the experiments above GD lives. It’s obvious. And now, things could get even worse.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “The people in the city experiments really don’t know what’s outside.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z William Gilbert, writing On the Magnet in Latin, is, as one would expect, alert to the difficulty of using words like ‘proof’ and ‘demonstration’ to describe what experiments do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "It could be. We could work with animated ink, and experiment with silkworms," I say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “It was—an experiment. I didn’t like it. They made me cough.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z So it’s in the spirit of a scientific experiment that I present myself at the office, wondering if my speckled and inflamed appearance will be enough to get me sent home. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z No one, as far as we know, replicated his experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The row of lightning rods in the red sky looked like some weird science experiment, like NASA’s model home on Mars. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Garzoni is not very interested in garlic and magnets; but his tract begins by stating that there is much nonsense written about magnets, and that reliable knowledge has to be based on experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The factions were our predecessors’ attempt to incorporate a ‘nurture’ element to the experiment—they discovered that mere genetic correction was not enough to change the way people behaved. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “We weren’t ready for experiments yet,” Livingston recalled mournfully. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For Nazi geneticists, these early studies provided the fuel for more drastic experiments. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When he determined that a slave deserved punishment, he experimented with new forms of torture. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Thus what Koyré took to be the key concept that made possible the new science, the concept of inertia, was, he held, constructed by Galileo thinking about everyday experience, by a mere thought experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In France, Mersenne received a rather garbled account of Torricelli’s experiment and tried unsuccessfully to reproduce it, but he lacked the right sort of glass tube. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Adams had orchestrated “a libel on the French government” as part of his “swindling experiment.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z To produce that single illuminating experiment, a thousand nonilluminating experiments have to be sent into the trash; it is battle between nature and nerve. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Are they supposed to hold hands during this part of the experiment? he's not sure. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z My mom would kill me if she knew I was experimenting with mood-altering substances. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Then there are other ethologists who also go to the home of the animals they wish to study but do not do experiments. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z As the experiment continued, more and more curious scientists crammed onto the balcony. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo had been experimenting with all sorts of weapons based on the Archimedes sphere that he’d recovered in Rome. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z "Your Majesty, would you indulge me if I experimented a bit?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Whether a piece of music is a march, a sonata, or a theme and variations, the composer is always free to experiment with the overall architecture of the piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Everybody said she liked to explode stuff for science experiments. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In the first part of the experiment, thirty-five students were asked about how they value money and how they value information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I don’t belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the fringe. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Gandhi’s years in South Africa became a laboratory, as he experimented with how to be a truthful, free person. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The discussion of experience/experiment claims that the English vocabulary fosters empiricism, while the French vocabulary is at odds with it; this would also seem to be true in this case. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nathan then went to the cornfield and re-sowed the traditional group, glad he was able to finally begin his science experiment. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In September 1943, Dobzhansky launched an attempt to demonstrate variation, selection, and evolution in a single experiment—to re-create the Galápagos in a carton. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Then I started to experiment, with Zara being the name that stuck. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I don’t know what a Conversat is but I’m relieved to be going to the building, where there are mice and snakes and experiments and no girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The experiment was conducted with twenty-one four- and five-year-olds, who were brought to the Harvard School of Education over the course of a week by their parents. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She and Dorothea could barely keep up with all the various stages of their ongoing experiments. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And at seven when Ma was experimenting with giving me a Mohawk. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The experiment showed that most of the alpha particles passed through the foil with very slight deflection or none at all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At ten Cathy knew something of the power of the sex impulse and began coldly to experiment with it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “If the Bureau is going to load all of those planes with the memory serum virus to reset the experiments, will there be any serum left to use against the compound?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Because of this I had serious misgivings about the wisdom of doing the experiment there.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the second part of the experiment, the researchers asked similar questions, but this time they focused on the value of information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z That idea escalates to its macabre zenith in Nazi Germany in the 1940s, where human eugenics is used to justify grotesque experiments, culminating in confinement, sterilization, euthanasia, and mass murder. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They experimented with resin, heating it by the fire, letting it boil and thicken, until it became an indestructible glue. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “I meant Key West. It seems Mr. Stone’s little experiment might be working out. There sure are a lot of tourists.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Within three months Ole and I had finished a set of experiments on the fate of a bacterial-virus particle when it multiplies inside a bacterium to form several hundred new virus particles. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Facts could be checked, experiments replicated, authorities could be set side by side and compared. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Well, for a start, here was a place just getting used to a radical and unprecedented experiment with democracy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z By problematizing the idea that experiments could be successfully replicated, the generation after Kuhn, the generation of Shapin and Schaffer, sought to demonstrate that experience itself is unpredictable, malleable, socially constructed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His words made me feel like a science experiment. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But at the same time he failed in his ultimate objective: he could not produce an experiment in which his magnets spontaneously rotated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Just for the sake of experiment, I wiggle my nose like Samantha on Bewitched. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As Lazear did his work that day, a mosquito that was not part of his experiment landed on his hand. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The resounding success of the Curagao experiment whetted the appetites of Florida livestock raisers for a similar feat that would relieve them of the scourge of screw-worms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I ask you,” he said, beginning what Kathy knew was one of his frequent thought experiments. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Jessie peeked over from where she was working on her fruit battery experiment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z However, a standard argument against Boyle’s experiments with his air pump was that the pump leaked, and that therefore it was incapable of making a vacuum. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Cesi writes, ‘We know by daily experiments that the power of the lodestone is weakened by garlic.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Alone, with the door locked and the chain on, I experimented with myself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Let us return to linkage: Morgan’s experiments had established that genes that were physically linked to each other on the same chromosome were inherited together. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “It was an experiment, and the components are difficult to balance properly.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It has changed and evolved as composers experimented with new sounds, ideas, and even new or evolving instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The hydrocarbons should remain on Titan, covering the surface with a brownish tarry organic sludge, something like that produced in experiments on the origin of life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Rutherford experimented by bombarding gold foils with alpha particles emanating from a glass vial of purified radium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Royal Society, after years of decline, in which it was short of funds and performing few experiments, was showing signs of a new enthusiasm for experimental science, but Papin did not benefit. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was only September, so no one knew if this experiment would work. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “So . . . you were making it so you could set up other city experiments more efficiently, right?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Steering the colored pilgrims down this or that path, buying them from estates and the block in order to conduct this experiment? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z To be fair, Hucbald merely experimented with this concept rather than invented it; it had been circulating in musical theories since antiquity, as indeed it had in Indian and Chinese musical systems. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed,” said U.S. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I can remember very clearly how we experimented with eating boiled lichen and reindeer moss to supplement our diet. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Recalling the Mars Jars experiments, Vishniac believed that life was tenacious and that Antarctica was perfectly consistent with microbiology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the early weeks of February, Danny and I met in the lunchroom, sat at a table by ourselves, and discussed the difficulties he was having with his mathematical translations of psychological experiments. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Everybody knew black people were disappearing cause Hopkins was experimenting on them!” she yelled. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This has been made clear by an infinite number of experiments on animals and by observations on human subjects as well. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I had begun this experiment in a spirit of scientific detachment. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “They said they been doin experiments on her and they wanted to come test my children see if they got that cancer killed their mother.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This was in effect an experiment, and it was a crucial experiment: it straightforwardly refuted the two spheres theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Many mathematical problems are so intractable, and experiments involving them so expensive, that this kind of probabilistic simulation is the only alternative to giving up on them. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I am confident that this experiment will also demonstrate that the Negro and Native Reeducation Act is entirely unnecessary. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They experimented with one expression and then another, said nothing, though their mouths were often open. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They invented endless variations: but nobody who performed a variation had not also performed the basic experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Scientists onboard had successfully conducted hundreds of experiments and undertaken thousands of observations. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I was curious about the ways she had of getting a man excited, but this was no time to start experimenting. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Nor are they really complete theories, because they contain a number of parameters whose values cannot be predicted from the theory but have to be chosen to fit in with experiment. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell her about our plan to stop the Bureau from resetting the experiments. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z But more commonly, a profoundly artificial experiment—loading trumpeters on a speeding train—might be necessary to understand and demonstrate these laws. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Everything was set for one of the most important experiments in the history of science. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If he could have had a fragment of mesarthium to experiment on in his laboratory, he would have been spared these late-night outings, this risk of discovery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Soviet scientists had to abandon fission experiments to work instead on weapons that could be used right away. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Precisely why I am afraid that you must retire from this experiment.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the short term it would help to provide a solution to the puzzle of the Michelson-Morley experiments in that it demonstrated that light needn’t be a wave after all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But one of those summers I experimented with rodeo. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Powers describes these as ‘purported’ experiments, but of course they were real. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Monkeys are nearly identical to human beings, in a biological sense, which is why they are used in medical experiments. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As additional proof from other laboratories and experiments accumulated in the 1950s, even the most hidebound skeptics had to convert into believers.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Neely was the only teacher to assign something over winter break, and his “homework” was simply to keep thinking about our scientific process experiments. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A further problem was that an experiment is an artefact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A number of such experiments have been carried out, but none have yielded definite evidence of proton or neutron decay. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “We can’t I’m not going to do medical experiments on unwilling subjects.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And in this experiment you put your head in a clamp and you look at a page of writing on a screen. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z All the other experiments made specific assumptions about gases that would be given off or taken in by the microbes, assumptions that were little more than guesses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Pascal, learning of this last result, carried out similar experiments in tall buildings in Paris and, as quickly as possible, published an account of them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the moment, Isa was in the dungeon practicing her violin and Jessie was perched at the top of the basement stairs, a new experiment spread out before her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z There must, he concluded, be changes deducible by experiment that are too subtle to be perceived directly by the senses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early 1850s, Mendel had tried a more audacious variation of this experiment, starting with white and gray field mice. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If an experiment produces a result which is at odds with the theory then something is wrong; but you cannot simply say that the theory is wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I want you to stop stealing the seeds I’m planting. I need them for my experiment!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Up until that point, American physics magazines had been filled with articles on new experiments and theories about fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her about some of my plants and gave a simple explanation of a few of my backyard botanical experiments. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z By the middle of the fifteenth century artists were experimenting with the idea of infinite, abstract, undifferentiated space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After all, aren’t they part of the greatest social experiment in modem history? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The governor pardoned twenty-six of the inmates, and the experiment was abandoned. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One experiment after another of his explores how we focus, what takes us away from what we profess to want to focus on, and whether our attention limits might even be expanded. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Still more sensitive experiments involving even larger quantities of matter will be needed to test them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Less obviously, though, he had watched her too, with a certain impersonal alertness; she might have been an experiment in progress. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z "But all we have left is the wait. Your work schedules are cleared. All scientific experiments are suspended. Sleep if you can, run diagnostics on your equipment if you can't." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z To continue the historicall narration of these experiments would make a discourse too tedious & confused, & therefore...’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The experiment required that they be sacrificed at the end of the time so that the researchers could take tissue samples and observe their bodies for any signs of infection. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It happened unexpectedly during an experiment he had run in his driving simulator. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z To understand its effect on birds one need only remember that in laboratory experiments on quail dieldrin has proved to be about 50 times as poisonous as DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Every time an experiment failed, Stanley could hear him cursing his dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-grandfather. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Eli is whining to the teacher that his lab partner stood him up, so he’s missing half the prep work for the experiment. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The Wolf Trap was selected along with three other microbiology experiments to go aboard the Viking landers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The school’s opinion of the experiment with the special classes for bright kids was clearly negative, she explained. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z When Milgram analyzed his experiment, for example, he found that many of the chains from Omaha to Sharon followed the same asymmetrical pattern. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He continues, “The factions were later introduced to most of our other experiments, three of which are currently active. We have gone to great lengths to protect you, observe you, and learn from you.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Hahn began his experiment with a piece of silver-colored metal called uranium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In other experiments, blowflies, mealworms, and yellow fever mosquitoes have been killed by airborne ultrasonic sound in a matter of seconds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Thus I have moral certainty that Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and moral certainty that Pascal accurately reported the Puy-de-Dôme experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It also meant researchers could store cells between experiments without worrying about keeping them fed and sterile. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z On the other hand, science is based on experience; it is open to correction by observation and experiment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z One month after the experiments, almost none of the subjects — a mere 3 percent — had actually gone to the health center to get inoculated. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sugar crushed people, and yet it was because of sugar that Gandhi began his experiment in truth—so that every individual could free him- or herself. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She’s seen the movie thousands of times; she doesn’t need to hit the play button in her visual memory and watch the critters quivering every time she talks about whether her experiment worked. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s hard to know how much the other monks in the abbey knew about Mendel’s experiments, or how much they cared. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Tío Pepe once told me about this experiment with monkeys who were caged for so long that when the doors were left open, they wouldn’t come out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Heredity, Mendel’s experiments implied, could only be explained by the passage of discrete pieces of information from parents to offspring. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Here were two successive experiments in human development, in which the environment was identical and the sole variable was the people occupying that environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I am arguing here from dates of publication: Galileo had already developed a sophisticated theory of falling bodies, backed up by exquisite experiments; but he had not published, and would not until 1638. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In science class, Mr. Z. told us about an experiment where they got this rat or mouse, and they put this rat or mouse on one side of a cage. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The best way to salvage something from the day was to come to an agreement about the next round of experiments. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The idea of Francis and me dirtying our hands with experiments brought unconcealed amusement. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Sure, sometimes they watched videos in science, but today they were supposed to continue working on their theories and experiments. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The so-called “GPs” grew up in this community, their worlds saturated by experiments and observation and learning. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The principle seemed obvious, but the actual experiment proved mysteriously daunting. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z No instrument currently imaginable will give scientists the power to observe strings directly; nobody can think of an experiment that will give physicists evidence about whether black holes and particles are, indeed, strings. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He built his own laboratory, the first at Cambridge, but then engaged in the most bizarre experiments. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Somewhere between Bragg the theorist and Perutz the experimentalist was Francis, who occasionally did experiments but more often was immersed in the theories for solving protein structures. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He poured the hot water on my feet, slowly, as if he were conducting an experiment and wanted to see what would happen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z But he had no interest in measurement or experiment; he thought Copernicus was excessively preoccupied with mathematical problems. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As an experiment she pretended that she was reading the alethiometer, and imagined herself asking: What does this woman know about Dust? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “If my experiments are valid, my name will last beyond my body. It’s immortality I’m after, to be quite honest.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z His experiments with electrical conductivity were a century ahead of their time, but unfortunately remained undiscovered until that century had passed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In other experiments, when small quantities of liquid water were present, the microbes actually grew. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I am very calm, as if I’m in science class conducting an experiment. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Thus in the Torricellian experiment you cannot see the pressure of the air, but the height of the column of mercury is an indicator of that invisible pressure. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If we have something they didn’t, then experiment would seem a good candidate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Besides, Blanca was not given to psychic experiments; even though she had always been extremely close to her mother, she had never shown the slightest curiosity for mental phenomena. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Again I was back in the lab, and the experiments I was doing were fun, in a second-class fashion. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a Great Designer; perhaps some species are destroyed when the Designer becomes dissatisfied with them, and new experiments are attempted on an improved design. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All such experiments are first steps toward wholly new concepts of insect control which the miracles of electronics may some day make a reality. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I started experimenting with drugs, and became involved with a gang in a nearby town. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I think the Chicago experiment, in particular, has been a success for so long that they’ll be a little reluctant to just ditch it now. It was the first one with factions.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Even the level-headed James Chadwick recalled experiments at the Cavendish “so desperate, so far-fetched as to belong to the days of alchemy.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The second day she lifted her hand to flip open a book of poems by Emily Dickinson, trying an experiment. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I don’t go chasing after straight guys, but if one wants to experiment to see what’s what? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The receiver was jammed into my cheek and the rest of the phone was dangling off my neck and the whole elasticity experiment was beginning to feel a little stupid and tight. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Zimbardo had originally intended to have the experiment run for two weeks. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were a sort of side experiment, without a control group. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “It seems to me the cost of experiments coming in the category of ‘pure science’ ought to come out of the funds of the university.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Thus, that potential for other, independent experiments was preempted or aborted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “She doesn’t want to be experimented on, either.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel’s initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated sterilization of Carrie Buck. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The purebred plants were only a starting point for his experiment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As you can probably tell, after a lot of soul-searching I decided to give up my short experiment with being a vegetarian. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Very little effort was made to calibrate the experiments with plausible inorganic Martian surface materials. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, half the shrimp in one experiment were killed by dieldrin at a concentration of only 15 parts per billion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He decided that he had made a mistake in his experiment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They both had thin smiles on their faces and they both looked painfully uncomfortable, as if they were embarking on a strange and potentially explosive experiment for which there were no predicted results. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “We blow it up, experimenting with new fuels for our flying saucers. A Tralfamadorian test pilot presses a starter button, and the whole Universe disappears.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of these experiments were not for the squeamish, but they certainly made people sit up and take notice. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In the first stage of the experiment, he gave them just basic information about Kidd. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He told some people precisely what the experiment was about and told them explicitly to avoid stereotypes based on race. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In 1986, Gene Johnson had infected monkeys with Ebola and Marburg by letting them breathe it into their lungs, and she had been the pathologist for that experiment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The experiment seemed to demonstrate the way even seemingly decent people could be corrupted by undue authority. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the course of the seventeenth century the Latin words experientia and experimentum and, with them, the English words ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From 1646 Torricelli’s experiment was widely performed, even though mercury was expensive and it continued to be difficult to get sufficiently sturdy long tubes sealed at one end. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hard to believe that this time last year, I was starting my whole experiment. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In fourteenth-century Oxford, mathematically inclined philosophers had hypothesized that falling bodies accelerate continuously; but they had made no effort to confirm this theoretical possibility through experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Although Charles continued to direct the battle for evolution behind the scenes and work on new books for his publisher, what gave him the most pleasure was doing experiments with his orchids and other plants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The experiments went on in this manner for eight years. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Fact: Companies pump the bag with nitrogen gas to prevent the chips from becoming potato crumbs, proven by my experiment in the third grade. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Count Rugen was about to begin his nightly experiments at that dusk, gathering up his notebooks from his room, filled with all his jottings. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In fact, in the summer of 2013, not long after this experiment got under way, Dr. Gazzaley and his team scored a huge scientific coup. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Besides, that might mess up the big experiment. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was another critical conclusion from the experiment. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There was the checkered rug where Mikayla and I did our experiments, the purple stain where we’d mixed baking soda and vinegar—and a whole bottle of bubble bath. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He had also—quite without meaning to—designed a beautiful economic experiment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t even get enough time to talk about becoming an astronaut and walking on Mars, or my favorite experiments or my best furry friend, Sir Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z In what might be termed an experiment in psychological warfare, the attractant is combined with a granular material and distributed by planes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then the engineers set up an experiment re-creating the circumstances of the accident, flying a test plane into the trailing wake of a larger plane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But this was the first time he had published the results of a series of experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They seem to have forgotten that I, a former member of the experiments they’re referring to, am in the room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z My mother was an imaginative cook, and her experiments weren’t always edible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Ignatius felt as alone as he had felt on that dark day in high school when in a chemistry laboratory his experiment had exploded, burning his eyebrows off and frightening him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Others seem to have performed the experiment entirely independently, on the basis only of written descriptions—Henry Power, for example. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 1971 it was decided that one of the four microbiology experiments must be removed, and the Wolf Trap was off-loaded. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Consider, for example, the so-called fear experiments conducted by the social psychologist Howard Levanthal in the 1960s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose that would be a fair assessment,” he said, and then quickly added, “I assume you are familiar with Philippa Foot’s Trolley Problem thought experiment?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z This new phase of research required the irradiation of uranium on a heroic scale, with the goal of producing enough 94 to perform the necessary experiments. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In this account of the creation the gods seemed bent on experimenting with the various metals, and, oddly enough, proceeding downward from the excellent to the good to the worse and so on. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The group then advertised in the local papers for volunteers, men who would agree to participate in the experiment. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To Nick, the whole thing was just one long—and successful—science experiment. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Inspired by his interest in hearing, sound, and speech, Bell experimented with using electricity to transmit voices. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z This turtle is an experiment to show how the heart of a reptile can keep on going after the rest of it is dead. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he moved the Gemini back into position near the end of the Agena, and I decided to make another try for the experiment package. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the weekend will be taken up with experiments. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It seems likely that they were an experiment. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The boy put the stones back in the pouch and decided to do an experiment. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One was the so- called wave-particle duality of nature at the infinitesimal scale: experiments sometimes showed light and electrons behaving like particles, and other times as waves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Gosling began his experiment by doing a personality workup on eighty college students. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Today, it was time to experiment with the panels. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I like experimenting with my voice, changing my look. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Tamika was coming over later and we were going to brainstorm possible experiments for our YouTube channel, Science Rocks, hosted by the two greatest scientists in the universe, after Einstein, of course. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Where does Pascal’s own testimony to the outcome of his experiments fit? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The “GDs” grew up in the experiments, where they only had to learn enough to survive until the next generation. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I whipped up some more mixtures, experimenting with the percentages. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z My meal would be an extreme experiment in being an active and conscious eater. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When his high school friends started experimenting with hard drugs, so did Mike, and he soon developed a heroin addiction. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z So we might want to claim that it is the book—or rather, in this case, the well-stocked library—that transforms the status of experiment; by crystallizing past knowledge, the library makes new knowledge possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Interesting,” Hecate said, as if Hazel were an unexpected result in a science experiment. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z This wave-particle dualism may not correspond readily to our common-sense notions, but it is in excellent accord with what experiments have shown light really does. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Your journey has finally come to an end, and I hope you had as much fun as I did exploring, investigating, and experimenting! The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A gene is more than a set of protein-building instructions, but Beadle and Tatum’s experiments provided a mechanistic basis for a gene’s function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “We haven’t gotten to test the genes of someone in such a late generation of the experiment before, and you and Tobias seem to be somewhat . . . odd, in your manifestations of certain things.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z All last week they had Burt going over my experiments and methodological charts. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Caroline brushed aside a strand of her hair, chemically straightened and streaked bright copper from a peroxide experiment. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Usually, the experts on the ground would tell a Gemini crew which way to steer to find their Agena, but on this flight—as an experiment—we were supposed to figure it out ourselves. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z After doing the test—which takes only about five minutes—the students were instructed to walk down the hall and talk to the person running the experiment in order to get their next assignment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Her text discussed the metamorphosis of more than fifty moths and butterflies, describing the timing of each phase, her repeated experiments and failures, and any other interesting insect behavior she had observed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Well, as we told her, in the event that the experiment failed, we couldn’t send you back to the bakery or to that room where you came from.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Every day they experimented and observed and took notes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Dr. Mengele, a doctor at Auschwitz, was obsessed with doing experiments with twins. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z One of my favorite bath experiments is about something scientists call buoyancy. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The field of psychology is rich with experiments that demonstrate this fact. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Remember when they made you spend a day explaining your experiments to me? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re welcome to stay here and work. The house is quiet—” “It’s a science experiment,” Beatrice cut in. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This line of attack is being carried even further in experiments aimed at deceiving the male into attempting to mate with a spurious female. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Earlier, when Bargh had gone to the committee at NYU that approves human experiments, they had made him promise that he would cut off the conversation in the hall at ten minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Other possibilities lie within the field of forest genetics, where experiments offer hope of developing a hybrid elm resistant to Dutch elm disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The press ran story after story about the brave men at the Ohio Penitentiary, praising them as “the first healthy human beings ever to agree to such rigorous cancer experiments.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But for now, in a fragile peace dominated by the buzz of flies, they immersed themselves in experiments on genes and chromosomes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, they got in on the beginning of the gender selection experiments.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z And you can bet that “interesting experiment” wouldn’t have been what he called it. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z However, experiments with large particle accelerators indicate that at high energies the strong force becomes much weaker, and the quarks and gluons behave almost like free particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the lobby is covered in giant screens showing different experiments taking place at Bureau facilities around the world. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Doesn’t that constitute a perfectly controlled experiment in the evolution of human societies, forcing us to a simple racist conclusion? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z High-ranking clergymen experimented with the dangerous ideas of the void and the infinite, even though the ideas struck at the core of the ancient Greek philosophy that the church cherished so much. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Preliminary experiments,” he wrote, “indicate that there are probably no serious difficulties in the way of obtaining protons having high enough speeds to be useful for studies of atomic nuclei.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If my experiment failed, and the drunken hamster passed out, I'd just put her in the deep freeze, alongside the slugs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It’s like all of us on this train are part of an Einstein relativity experiment—every American has been hurtling through space at the speed of light except us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z To this end, Orff created frameworks or pathways to help children experiment without pressure or stress. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z On the wooden Agena was an exact copy of the experiment package I would find on the real Agena, and it was attached in the same way. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing in such experiments is unique to the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This is less true when we turn to experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the experiments had not yet been done, the inventions had not yet been made. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The last time I saw her was the night of Professor Ghering's lecture, when she stood along the wall, nodding in agreement as I protested using that poor man in that professors ill-conceived experiment. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Your city is one of those experiments for genetic healing, and by far the most successful one, because of the behavioral modification portion. The factions, that is.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The handsome exotic boy all these pretty girls would inevitably use to satisfy their need to experiment and one day rebel against their parents. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But Pascal’s simple experiment demolished Aristotle’s assertion that nature abhors a vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was still paint and glue stuck in his hair from when he was experimenting with fabrics earlier in the day. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Categories, functions, and meanings have to be ascertained empirically, by running little experiments such as substituting a phrase whose category you don’t know for one you do know and seeing whether the sentence still works. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The development of high-speed computers makes possible numerical experiments on the collective motion of thousands or tens of thousands of points, each representing a star, each under the gravitational influence of all the other points. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At first we mixed things together, hoping they would explode, but nothing happened, so I decided we should conduct an experiment to see if any of the stuff was flammable. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It is interesting, in this context, to think back on the experiment with the nodding and the headphones. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence, perfecting his style of Big Science, already was involved less in performing experiments than in managing his interdisciplinary staff. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Your noble experiment in sedimentary cuisine,” he said. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z When I experiment with pressing them, my avatar jerks forward a bit. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As early as 1682, William Penn’s colonial government experimented with incarceration as an alternative to corporal and capital punishment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Mams had asked her to perform a chemical experiment that had to do with the decomposition of organic materials. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And he remarks that with this equipment you will find it easy to establish that garlic and diamonds do not disempower magnets; you can do the experiment whenever you like. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The book in which I found that passage was full of tables and graphs showing the results of experiments on frogs, salamanders, rats, apes, and human beings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The easiest way to experiment on the Orff instruments is to begin with the pentatonic scale, a scale with only five pitches. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Recent experiments suggest that this may indeed be the case. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Why is the Cook County experiment so important? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z When it’s my turn, I introduce myself as Josh Raymond, seventeen, no previous experience beyond my recent halfhearted experiment with sleeping pills. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Our experiments show a rock sample drill can get through the hull. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And what else could you do in a laboratory except experiment with the physiology of animals and men? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In particular, they can raise a child’s awareness of different moods and aesthetics, allowing them new modes through which to experiment with self-expression and also new material with which to enhance stories and narratives. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “A lot of the support staff used to be in the experiment in Indianapolis—another city, not far from here,” Zoe says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was like running downhill in a way; the momentum carried me through all sorts of experiments, big and small. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z This experiment is where we get the concept of six degrees of separation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Doris was talking, and I was trying to listen—really, I was—but in my head I was turning her into an experiment. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But observing nature, it turned out, was very different from experimenting with nature. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The simple truth is that replication of the Torricellian experiment was unproblematic; it follows that the sociologists of science are wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thus in 1660 Boyle describes one experiment ‘as a plausible, though not demonstrative proof, that Water may be transmuted into Air’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Did we repeat the experiment, we should instead inoculate in the leg, which, being further removed from the pneumatic, electrico-aetherial, and hydraulico- vascular machinery, is less likely to lead to internal corrosion and fatality, viz. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In 1947, delivering the annual Janeway Lecture of the American Radium Society, he reported that of his original 252 patients, only 18 were still alive less than ten years after the experiment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “What do you think? It’s your science experiment. Tell me your hypothesis.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Still, the experiment helped Bell and Tainter figure out how to make modifications. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z During all this time, Newton had been carrying out experiments and thinking about the world more or less on his own, hardly discussing his ideas with anyone at all. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I experiment by gingerly placing only my hand in the water. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In Mendel’s paper, de Vries discovered a solution to his question, a perfect corroboration of his experiments—and a challenge to his originality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Anaximander of Miletus was a friend and colleague of Thales, one of the first people we know of to do an experiment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But she made no effort to swim and Dad finally had to admit that the experiment was a failure. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z You may want to experiment with some of the many scales possible. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This simply is not the case, as experiments quickly showed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He’s spent four years on an experiment looking at whether a particular kind of scientifically engineered video game could improve the attention span and memory of people over the age of sixty. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She regarded me as a sort of interesting experiment. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z This story is about a school experiment that shows how peer pressure can get out of hand. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Grisly as it was, the experiment nonetheless announced that Darwin and Lamarck could not be right. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “But I’m sure he’s just experimenting, testing his wings, he’s a sensible fellow, comrade. I trust him ...” “Not like that,” Comrade Pillai said. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There were studies of shadows against a faded brick wall, photographs of feathers clotting the shoreline of Shaker Lake, experiments Mia was conducting with printing photographs on different surfaces: vellum, aluminum foil, newspapers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Seeking a more efficient method, the doctors also experimented with mobile gas vans in which carbon monoxide exhaust from the engine was pumped inside. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z You must plan experiments on the basis of probability, even bare possibility, rather than certainty. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, people had heard about the experiment, and most of them knew who I was. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z In general, the microbiology experiments were not carried out at the low ambient Martian temperatures, and most did not provide long incubation times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On Sunday, I made the experiment of dressing well and walking past some of the white churches just as services were over. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As they perform their experiments, which make little sense to my primitive intellect, my mind wanders. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Although there is discussion over whether improvisation skills can be taught, there are some basic steps that allow children a safe, secure context in which to experiment with improvisation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He performed a clever experiment in which a single drop of white liquid, like cream, was shown not to lighten perceptibly the contents of a great pitcher of dark liquid, like wine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad almost flips out because he's never performed a big experiment without thinking about it for at least a year or two. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the bewildered, emaciated prisoners to walk out of the camp that morning were one family of dwarfs and several twins—the few remaining survivors of Mengele’s genetic experiments. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If this seems absurd, consider the situation in the citrus groves of California, where the world’s most famous and successful experiment in biological control was carried out in the 1880’s. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I could maybe find some mad scientist to cryogenically freeze me, but chances are I’d die in the middle of that wacky experiment. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I should have known, then, that he would gladly trade thousands of GD memories—lives—for control of the experiments. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Since the Indianapolis experiment was disbanded, which was about eight years ago. I could have integrated into the greater population, outside the experiments, but that felt too overwhelming.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I’ve got an experiment running. I have to check the computer periodically.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My own scientific curiosity eventually blossomed, but I knew enough to keep my freakish experiments to myself. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Vincent is experimenting with different styles: aspects of pointillism, mixed with the more graphic approach of the Japanese paintings he loves. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mrs. Allen said, “Well, I think the real issue is Mrs. Granger’s reaction to a harmless little experiment with language—it’s an overreaction, don’t you think so, Tom?” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway. When the experiments were first developed, the airport was converted into this compound so that we could monitor the experiments from a distance,” Zoe says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Harrison and I found us some Pennsylvania whisky, and experimented, and found that it goes well with Pennsylvania water. Wa’nt bad a-tall. Ttied to save you some, but first thing you know . . .’’He shrugged helplessly. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizebeth insisted that this was merely an experiment, with the young doctor “trying out his training” and William “trying out a patient’s role.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But now that there is evidence to indicate that the Terran Colony was an experiment, the planting of one Hainish Normal group on a world with its own proto-hominid autochthones, the possibility cannot be ignored. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z On the day the public experiment was to be carried out Galileo’s rival failed to show up. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Naturally, as the success of my experiment depended on getting her to talk, I couldn’t talk much myself. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “The experiment was right down the hall from my office,” Bargh remembers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z At Riverbank, he lived in a damp windmill, where he did experiments with fruit flies and African violets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Dijksterhuis went back and redid his experiment, only this time he classified the cars in twelve different categories. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z This was how they did the lab preps, the AP and regular-track students lumped together before they broke up into smaller groups for the actual experiments. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z An experiment may help to illustrate how and why this is the case. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Thus Gilbert made magnetic experiments relevant to a well-established branch of natural knowledge, astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I had landed on the opposite side of the Agena from the spot the experiment package was located, so I had to go hand- over-hand around to it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Reset the Bureau, and reprogram them without the propaganda, without the disdain for GDs. Then they’ll never risk the memories of the people in the experiments again. The danger will be gone forever.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Mother used muscle testing to experiment with other methods of healing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Yeah, they did. With the ivy. Longest one they could possibly make. Let’s just say that little experiment didn’t go so well.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I went to the science lab, to see if Mr. Powers would do some experiments with me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The first experiments on reproductive incompatibility and species formation were carried out before the selection experiments, but Dobzhansky and his students continued to work on both problems in the 1940s and 50s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There’s an order to it, and it’s fun to experiment. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z After Urey suggested that such gases be sparked, someone asked him what he expected to make in such an experiment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tristan!” yelled Ms. Rubin, but Tristan didn’t even care about the spilled powder on the floor or that he ruined the experiment. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z We do homework, listen to records, experiment with Kay’s makeup, and then go to the candy store so I can get Shirley her Sugar Daddies like I promised. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z What if history was a gambler, instead of a force in a laboratory experiment, and the boys his ace in the hole? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The Iowa experiment is just that, of course, a simple card game involving a handful of subjects and a stress detector. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Almost immediately he would suggest a rash of new experiments that should confirm his interpretation. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z At the same time, those who performed experiments ceased to be lonely and isolated individuals; they became members of an experimental network. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He concentrated so much on his experiments in silverwork that he scarcely left the laboratory to eat. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As soon as he’d recovered enough from his surgery to travel, Gey began contacting cancer researchers around the country, asking who was doing research on pancreatic cancer and needed a patient to experiment on. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z On the tables and shelves were remnants of his experiments, including something weird in a bottle. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the point of a symphony; it was like an essay, or a detailed, blow-by-blow experiment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In 1651 Pascal reacted with horror to the suggestion that he had tried to pass Torricelli’s experiment off as his own: everyone understood, he insisted, that this would be the scholarly equivalent of theft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Renowned aerodynamicists Eastman Jacobs, John Stack, and John Becker had come to the laboratory as freshly minted junior engineers and were quickly allowed to design and conduct their own experiments. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As if his stupid science experiment had anything to do with real life. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Yet in this brief flash of six decades, the gene had transformed from an abstract concept in a botanical experiment to a powerful instrument of social control. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The experiment he describes cannot be performed in Cambridge at the beginning of the year: it requires the sun to reach an elevation of 40 degrees above the horizon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The subjects had no idea what kind of experiment they were involved with, or what the newscasters were talking about. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But note Sabra’s judgement: ‘It remains true, however, that the confirmatory experiments in I. H.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is a key feature of his work that Galileo always carried out experiments to test hypotheses, modifying or abandoning those hypotheses if the outcomes of the experiments did not match their predictions. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There is no need to introduce the idea of an ether, whose presence anyway cannot be detected, as the Michelson-Morley experiment showed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1700 the idea that the study of the physical world is all about facts, experiments, evidence, theories and laws of nature had become well established. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mendel deepened his analysis with his second experiment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Both they and the Christians experimented with using their slaves to run the plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But this is the first time a consensus developed around what the English call an ‘experiment’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He started with the number seven train that connects Queens to midtown Manhattan, and began experimenting with new techniques to clean off the paint. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you should know; it’s important. I’m doing experiments with my mind, to see how it got the way it is.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Holmes told Erickson he was using the chloroform for scientific experiments. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In 1941, three years before Avery’s landmark experiment, two scientists, George Beadle and Edward Tatum, working in a basement tunnel at Stanford University, discovered the missing link between genes and physical traits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Alvarez’s experiment, which involved his spending long hours in the LeConte basement counting clicks on his handmade X-ray detector, set a new standard for rigorous physics at the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But there wasn’t time for this kind of experiment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z If I was going to venture into sex, I saw no reason why I shouldn’t make my experiment with the best of the lot. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The newly minted “human geneticist,” Josef Mengele, would soon rise to become the most epically perverse of Nazi researchers, whose experiments on prisoners would earn him the title Angel of Death. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In 1661 Christiaan Huygens built his own air pump and began repeating the standard experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Since the humans had begun experimenting with mineral drilling, more and more fairies had been driven out of the shallow forts and into the depth and security of Haven City. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z As a perverse and incredibly boring experiment, I am now trying to prove that I can get by without the drugs and the drinking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The chambers set aside for experiment were not lit at that hour. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We’re going to pack the rest of your time with research and experiments. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Nivea took charge of Clara’s trousseau, since Clara did not show the slightest interest in the contents of the sandalwood trunks, and continued her experiments with the three-legged table and her divining cards. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The beam not only facilitated more sophisticated experiments but also provided a new “vaudeville” for Lawrence to exploit, for it never failed to elicit gasps of astonishment from his visitors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She loved experimenting with differing amounts of pigments and binders, seeking the clearest, most durable colors. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If the experiment hadn’t ended after ten minutes, who knows how long they would have stood in the hallway, a polite and patient smile on their faces? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Francis Bacon, when he writes about experiments, uses the phrases ‘the inquisition of nature’ and ‘nature vexed’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Muller also realized that his experiment had broad implications for human eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Without my Partner in Crime, I’ll have to sneak into Beth’s room alone to find the last ingredient for my bath experiment. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Hobbes, for his part, neatly distinguishes experiment from experience, but not as we do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Every two years, someone comes up with an experiment in which he rotates a magnet or something and expects to get the effect he wanted, but he doesn’t and can’t understand why,” he told Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Gilbert already had a small, local community of experts, but the Torricellian experiment produced an international network of a quite new sort. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This back and forth movement between theory and evidence, hypothesis and experiment has come to seem so familiar that it is hard for us to grasp that Galileo was doing something fundamentally new. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Such experiments were first performed in the early 1950’s by Stanley Miller, then a graduate student of the chemist Harold Urey. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nita already told us that the experiments were in danger of being disbanded, so I am not surprised to hear it’s true. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The mechanic, a white man with many years of service at the laboratory, sabotaged Byrdsong’s experiment by incorrectly affixing the model to its sting in the tunnel’s test section. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Another guess concerning the hypothetical experiment’s object: the elimination of war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z José Arcadio Buendía spent the long months of the rainy season shut up in a small room that he had built in the rear of the house so that no one would disturb his experiments. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “She provided only as much information as you needed to meet the goals of our experiments,” says David. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I told people I was participating in a scientific experiment,” Theodora said helpfully. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He went back to his old thought experiment and began to study it carefully, this time with the help of real tanks, real blocks of wood and pieces of marble. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Dari gasped in horror and said, “I’ll have to run this experiment at home,” while Twig said, “We’ll have to make something up.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The logic was appealing, but unfortunately no one knew how much salt was in the sea or by how much it increased each year, which rendered the experiment impracticable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A teacher rushed over, and Calder had explained that it was an experiment and that it felt just perfect. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “In that case”—he grins wickedly—“I hear that Pluto and Jupiter and the earth are about to align. I wonder if you want to join me in a floating experiment.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The experiment of doing without the 101st had apparently been a fiasco. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For him, several experiments amount to experience—experiment is particular; experience general. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I turned my attention to other experiments of my own devising, anything to keep me away from Christmas socks. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I’ve avoided writing to you about this because it really doesn't have any bearing on the Be Like Martin experiment. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He came up with an experiment that involved sitting two people in front of a “phonautograph.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The Pythagorean fascination with whole-number ratios in musical harmonies seems clearly to be based on observation, or even experiment on the sounds issued from plucked strings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Even our Experimental Philosophers and Physicians find, that an experiment that hits ofttimes, quite misseth afterwards on other Subjects, and they know not why. A course of effects may oft come from unknown causes.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Later, when Holmes returned for more chloroform, Erickson asked him how his experiments were coming. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "How would you like it," Miss Honey said, "if we made some very cautious experiments to see just how much you can move and push?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Doppler’s demonstrations and experiments captivated Mendel as much as they frustrated him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Beadle and Tatum shared a Nobel Prize in 1958 for their discovery, but the Beadle/Tatum experiment raised a crucial question that remained unanswered: How did a gene “encode” information to build a protein? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Small horned toad. Rude as it is spiky. It’s stealing my seeds for my science experiment. I figured you’re a Holy Being, it’s a Holy Being. Maybe you know each other?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We collected ferns and sticks to run our own “scientific experiments,” which always resulted in incredible cures: Cure for Hiccups! The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But more often her efforts were disappointments, the uneven products of a girl still learning; usually she threw her experiments away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So I left the TV sound off and I sat down at my mood organ and I experimented. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It was Schott’s book that inspired Robert Boyle to construct his own air pump in England, and it is perhaps not a coincidence that vacuum experiments were recommenced in Florence in 1657. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Enormous efforts were made to build the Viking microbiology experiments and test them with a variety of microbes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This has been well tested by experiment and is likely to remain a feature even if we find a more advanced theory to replace relativity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Pocock finally followed his own heart and began to experiment with the wood in 1927, he was astonished by the possibilities it opened up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Don’t you see? Adults don’t see anything wrong with those experiments. We have to take the cats away—Dada will help me—and the doctors won’t even know where they’ve gone.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z More surprisingly perhaps, there are no facts in Robert Boyle’s New Experiments of 1660, his first account of the air-pump experiments, only phenomena. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He could only sit and stare out the window into the rain and blackness, pondering words like Flare and sickness and experiment and Scorch and WICKED. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z His claims provoked a widespread concern with the replication of his experiments precisely because the viability of Aristotelian orthodoxy was now at stake. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is impossible to believe that if he really had carried out the famous experiment himself there would be no mention of this triumph anywhere in his writings. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Up to this point, the story of the vacuum experiments is a story of accidents and near-misses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The “missing ingredient” experiment propelled Beadle and Tatum toward a new understanding of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We reach the place where the outside world ends and the experiment begins, as abrupt a shift as if someone had drawn a line in the ground. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The Bureau, once in charge of the experiment, will now keep order in Chicago’s city limits. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Instead, scientists must look for “natural experiments,” in which something similar befell humans in the past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “So, what experiment are you working on this time?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I was a living experiment dressed in white corduroys and a Fair Isle sweater. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In terms of evidence gained from animal experiments we shall see that five or possibly six of the pesticides must definitely be rated as carcinogens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I trained astronauts, talked them through their science experiments while they were in orbit, and often went to Cape Canaveral for launches of the space shuttle and other rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He kept a small ball in his waist pouch and experimented with it whenever he had the chance. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z This experiment was carefully prepared, extensively tested on animals, and statistically validated. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I resolve to give him all my tips that night, and to hell with the experiment in low-wage money management. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Once again he encourages him to experiment with moving away from the dark, muddy palette of the Dutch masters. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They knew that Hershey’s experiments were not trivial and that from then on everyone was going to place more emphasis on DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z From his agitation, I discerned that Lord Cheldthorpe had given no firm word on whether he would support our continued experiments and grace the arts of our house with his beneficence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Writing about this death, Edward Hoagland observed that Alaska is “not the best site in the world for eremitic experiments or peace-love theatrics.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Since Hyatt had no HeLa cells in his lab at the time, the cells in his experiment must have been contaminated before they arrived. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “It’s the record room. They keep some of the Chicago experiment data in here.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Finally, it was Nemur s turn to speak—to sum it all up as the head of the project—to take the spotlight as the author of a brilliant experiment. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z "I've been experimenting. It's not that different from cooking. You just distill something over and over until you get the richest scent you can." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z When he was silent I insisted: “I have a right to know everything that pertains to the experiment, and that includes my future.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z You can do these kinds of experiments a thousand different ways and the answer almost always comes out the same way. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the archetypal theoretical physicist: it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Katz took a big thoughtful breath—partly sigh, partly just experimenting with the ability to breathe again. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Then, they repeated the experiment, but they replaced the food with something that gave the rat or mouse intense pleasure. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z And if this experiment of ours fails, we have also embedded a way to escape it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z His harmonic experiments flowed freely into later incarnations of jazz, the origins of which were most certainly not European, and have become part of a common musical heritage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Fortunately, I didn’t, and I was able to pull the experiment package free easily with one hand. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nowadays, Newton’s experiments come pre-packaged, so that they can be reliably reproduced to educate children in school; but that is because the equipment has been devised to produce the required result. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Had Mendel stopped his experiments here, he would already have made a major contribution to a theory of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Then we do our experiments on them, like we find a new drug for cancer, pour it onto the cells, and see what happens.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I went up to my laboratory, but I didn’t feel like performing any experiments. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In the West it took another century of experiment and debate before this evenly spaced solution for twelve, not nineteen, notes emerged as the front-runner solution. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Then, it had been only us, and we had only been experimenting. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He poured me a glass of water from the carafe he kept handy to rinse away the taste of his experiments. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I start sketching my experiment on a sheet of paper. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z When Uncle Jet found out that Nathan was using the cornfield for his experiment, he agreed to fix the cornfield posts. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Remember my experiments with the RTG and having a hot bath? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Gordon says she believed her brother dead until last March, when the head of the psychology department at Beekman University approached her for permission to use Charlie in an experiment. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z End-of-school bells don't mean much to Martin when he's in the middle of an experiment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The experiments use video game technology to challenge people to distribute attention, then use imaging to measure brain activity during the task. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was fascinating to think about all the things you could learn there: Galileo’s acceleration experiment, the dissection of rabbits, and making materials change state in a test tube. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Bruno Rossi put him to work experimenting with components of the new plutonium bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Turning the little steel strip over and over between her fingers, she remembered an experiment she’d done in science class as a child. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It seems like a perfectly controlled experiment in the evolution of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If the Torricellian barometer had not been easy to replicate, it would never have become the first famous experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The strike, the New York Tribune warned, was “another experiment in the way of Bolshevizing American industry.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In fact, Torricelli’s experiment rapidly became famous: the phrase ‘famous experiment’ is first used in English in 1654 to refer to it, and for an Italian author in 1663 it is famosissima. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They were mistaken; the upstart’s experiments succeeded—partly because, in the beginning years, he labored eighteen hours a day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not want to be Maxine’s experiment, charity case, or rebellious backlash against her mother. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Dr. Strayer said he was presently doing experiments in how long it takes to regain “situational awareness” once a person was finished texting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In less than two days those planes will probably drop the memory serum virus over the experiments. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps if he had told Susan about Kainene, she would have used that tone to tell him that she quite understood his need to experiment with a black woman. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was just a few grams, but it was enough to start some important experiments. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know better than to do this experiment without an adult present. You could damage the microwave, or worse.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z More or less independent later experiments in France and England led to Sevres, Wedgwood, and Spode porcelains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps from this mentality, as well as from uncritical literal copying, came the medieval habit of reporting reported observations and experiments as if they were original. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “There’s a scene where George is about to lose his temper,” says Warren Jones, who worked with Klin on the experiment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There, he learned the same rational, scientific approach to testing and experimenting that had proven that the sugar that comes from beets is the same as that which comes from cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Scientists could now pause cells at various intervals during an experiment so they could compare how certain cells reacted to a specific drug one week, then two, then six after exposure. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He is experimenting, but with black, and black and white. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It is something of a puzzle that the word ‘experiment’ did not come with it, despite its respectable Latin antecedents. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She hauled the poles up into the lucky-beans with Crocodile Guts’s rope, and experimented with various configurations until she had a floor that was more or less level. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no need for him to ferret out the relevant experiments since Hugh had already waded through the undigested mass. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z His gums bled at the slightest pressure of the tip of his tongue, and he seldom stopped experimenting; it was a little game he played, sometimes by the hour. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Galileo proceeded to confirm his new theory with a very simple experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And Pomp, hearing of change, mentioned his experiments in the fluctuation of swamp-water in ditches, which he hath conducted in his idleness, but which speculations would do honor to one of our academicians. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Even though growing up as a twin has had its good points and bad points, at least I always have someone to talk to, share clothes with, and experiment with. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Griffith’s and Muller’s experiments had pointed to a material substance, a chemical that could move between organisms and was quite easily altered by X-rays. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And this experiment is all the more dangerous since it can be tried but once. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The reason Henrietta’s cells were so precious was because they allowed scientists to perform experiments that would have been impossible with a living human. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z These experiments imply that the Sun is dimmer in neutrinos than the calculations predict. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Isabella watches me like I’m a science experiment, and Julia looks back and forth between me and Tyler like she’s at the movies. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z We repeated this process until we were certain that, numerically at least, all the animals with which the doctors were experimenting were accounted for. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z "Good old reliable H2S04, an oily, colorless, corrosive liquid used in dyes, paints, explosives, and many chemical experiments." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Cohen has done other experiments looking again for evidence of “southernness,” and each time he finds the same thing. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In terms of mutual respect and admiration, their six children had been nothing more than a failed experiment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The experiment with Pumpkin worked so well that Smith began collecting other stable companions for Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the design of space missions is finalized many years before launch, and because of Vishniac’s death, the results of his Antarctic experiments did not influence the Viking design for seeking Martian life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Etienne tries performing silly experiments to cheer her: a vinegar volcano, a tornado in a bottle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Both Negroes and whites have gained this certainty from the experiment—because I was a Negro for six weeks, I remained partly Negro or perhaps essentially Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh my Einstein! I was just about to do your favorite experiment.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The potter would bark terse commands, which Tree-ear struggled to satisfy by whatever means were available to him—watching Min, watching other potters, experimenting. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Scientists at the Department of Agriculture laboratory in Orlando, Florida, are now sterilizing the housefly in laboratory experiments and even in some field trials, using chemicals incorporated in suitable foods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Don’t see the point. My experiment’ obviously didn’t work. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We’ll go at night when there are fewer people around—just a few lab assistants running experiments. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z She tells us, in fits and starts, about the council’s plan to reset the experiments. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Consequently the results of experiments cannot refute a theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I also wanted to experiment with the amount of cereal flavor in the milk, so I let the cereal sit in some of the milk longer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z We take him in the house when Mama and Father are still at church and one time we put him on Mama’s dress for an experiment and he turned flowered. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed so simple and so prodigious at the same time that overnight he lost all interest in his experiments in alchemy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Particularly pleasing was the possibility that Joshua might be so stuck on his classical way of thinking that I would accomplish the unbelievable feat of beating him to the correct interpretation of his own experiments. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In the late 1960s, the psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to find an answer to what is known as the small-world problem. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We spent months experimenting with the methods the old masters used to create real gesso. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “You’ll be able to eat. Don’t worry. And in the meantime, think of this as a science experiment. So it’s two of your most favorite things, Albert.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z While the Viking biology experiments are a pioneering first effort, they hardly represent a definitive search for life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Gabrielis also experimented with placing clusters of singers and instrumentalists in different pockets of the building, a technique known as antiphony, meaning ‘voices against each other’, or poly choral, ‘many choirs’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z On his return to Cuba, Reed initiated a series of experiments involving volunteers and insect-tight tents. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The steam engine was the product of seventeenth-century science, which had experimented with vacuums, and with air and steam pressure. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By criteria established before launch, two of the three Viking microbiology experiments seem to have yielded positive results. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In it, there was an idea for an experiment. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She left everything in the hands of Nana and the other servants, and immersed herself in the world of apparitions and psychic experiments. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Zimbardo has since accepted some criticism of his methods and admitted that the experiment was “clearly unethical.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was experimenting with being ardently sympathetic with everybody he met. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The lithium experiment was in the hands of a graduate student named Milton White, who now got his first exposure to Ernest Lawrence in the throes of a mania. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When Correns completed his experiments and was ready to assemble his paper for publication, he returned to the library to find references to his scientific predecessors. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The insect Swammerdam used in his experiments back in 1669 was nothing other than a silkworm. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Over the next few days, Nathan drafted an experiment that would compare water consumption between Nali’s heirloom kernels that had been passed down to her through many generations and store-bought kernels. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z If one carried out experiments with moving bodies on the train, all Newton’s laws would still hold. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Because science is based upon observation and experiment, some critics argue that string theory is not science but philosophy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Then Payne redid his experiment, only this time he sped it up. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z If I had had even the slightest interest in marine animals, I would have done experiments. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Pascal’s Puy-de-Dôme experiment explained the height of the mercury in a barometer by showing that it was directly related to the weight of the air. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a cumbersome way of doing business, but it got the job done and went far beyond what Archimedes needed to solve his thought experiment. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps the origin of life is not so easy as our laboratory experiments suggest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Neely clapped along, beaming at their jam sesh, and when the music ended, he introduced our experiment of the day: washer pendulums. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Eratosthenes’ only tools were sticks, eyes, feet and brains, plus a taste for experiment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I've always felt the same as my sisters—the only difference was that I liked to experiment with my arcana, even if it landed me in trouble. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Then, in an experiment that would be considered highly unethical today, he allowed these mosquitoes to feed on healthy humans. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The mutants, again, would prove crucial to these experiments: only the outliers could illuminate the nature of normal heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z An early experiment to answer this question was performed by Christiaan Huygens, very much in the Ionian tradition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At that time, the military was experimenting with dive-bombing tactics for heavy bombers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He labeled Bateson’s experiments “utterly inadequate” and refused to believe de Vries’s studies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The brilliant young organizer was experimenting, and always hoping that a misstep wouldn’t cause the entire enterprise to blow up in his face. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Partly it was to do with the limitations of equipment–there were, for instance, no centrifuges until the second half of the century, severely restricting many kinds of experiments–and partly it was social. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Only to make sure you weren’t experimenting with drugs or planning to shoot up your school.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Harvey then built up his case, using a combination of experiments and observation. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In another experiment aimed at refining the answers, Dr. Atchley is working with scientists at the Imaging Center in Kansas City. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I promise her, even though I had been planning on trying out the music-in-the-bathtub experiment. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z As dawn approached, we finished up this work and prepared for our next experiment. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Was I here merely as part of a social experiment? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Naturally, we were very jubilant over the outcome of the experiment,” Rabi later said of the mood among scientists that morning. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Harvard ordered, as an experiment, one of the first to come out of Pocock’s shop and promptly reported back that the boat had taken several full seconds off its crew’s best times. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The most elementary experiment will show that ice floats no matter what its shape. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The government has been threatening to shut down the experiments for almost a year now,” Nita says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Ever since Thomas had seen the words on the wall of the Maze— world in catastrophe, killzotie experiment department—he’d been thinking about them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “The controlled release of atomic power has been demonstrated for the first time in history,” Fermi said of his experiment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After having made a few preparatory experiments, he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget: Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z His science experiments would nearly blow up the house because whatever he created, he’d leave it bubbling and boiling while he went to search for food, forgetting it completely. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z If we had asked the students in John Bargh’s experiment why they were standing in the hall so patiently after they had been primed to be polite, they wouldn’t have been able to tell us. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z They had never taken time to answer a single question; though we worked in the institute, we were as remote from the meaning of the experiments as if we lived in the moon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried gambling, and started forging checks and experimenting with other forms of theft. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z There are other words just as ambiguous as sixteenth-century ‘experience’/‘experiment’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Since Christmas vacation, Miss Riley had stopped standing during class, teaching instead from her chair behind her desk and asking one of us boys to come up and perform her experiments. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Muller’s experiments demonstrated that heredity could be manipulated quite easily: the mutation rate was itself quite mutable. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He produced a new theory of the rainbow which emphasized the role of refraction, where Aristotle had only mentioned reflection; but there is no evidence that Grosseteste ever conducted experiments to test his theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Teddy lingered for a moment at the door, reflectively experimenting with the door handle, turning it slowly left and right. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z This was true, and in the void-in-the-void experiment the mercury never fell below half an inch. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Think of it as an experiment,” I say. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z There were some fuzzy data using sea urchins, interpreted as a transformation of DNA into RNA, but I preferred to trust other experiments showing that DNA molecules, once synthesized, are very very stable. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “So that you don’t feel like a fetish, right? Like you’re just some experiment or something?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And in yet another experiment, his team is asking a question related to distracted driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He carried out many of the experiments and observations. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the origin of modern chemistry can be traced directly to these experiments. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I’m sitting alone, realizing I can’t think of the experiment that will explain everything. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z To answer that, Friedman conducted a fascinating experiment. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When we landed on the topic of Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement, I wound up telling her about this Be Like Martin experiment. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Eratosthenes had the presence of mind to do an experiment, actually to observe whether in Alexandria vertical sticks cast shadows near noon on June 21. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Rad Lab’s first report on its findings reached the Physical Review dated February 27—a crucial two days earlier than a letter from Lawrence’s Caltech rival, C. C. Lauritsen, documenting his own experiments. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Avery fiddled with the experiment as only a microbiologist could, growing the bacteria in various cultures, adding beef-heart broth, removing contaminant sugars, and growing the colonies on plates. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Once an experiment has been black boxed the experiment is no longer a test of the result; rather, getting the right result has become a test of the reliability of the equipment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Imagining their intestines going out in a similar blaze of glory, even the jockeys began to fear it, and Hawley’s Slim Jim experiment went down the tubes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Beatles borrowed sounds and techniques from both past musical traditions and cutting-edge advances - from ancient folk modes to electronic experiments - to become the most famous band in the world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Whatever accounted for the results of his experiments, it wasn’t mystical, and neither was mesarthium itself, and neither was spirit. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There were no surprises the second time around, no insight puzzles, no opportunities for the complexities and confusion of the real world to intrude on the Pentagon’s experiment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z When Schooler did this experiment with a whole sheet of insight puzzles, he found that people who were asked to explain themselves ended up solving 30 percent fewer problems than those who weren’t. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z We were going through the motions of that day’s experiment, sitting side by side while neither of us acknowledged the other’s existence. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Since the Viking biology experiments were strongly oriented toward organisms that are comfortable in liquid water, some scientists held that the chance of Viking finding life would be substantially improved in Cydonia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Let’s just say I did an experiment with some pictures to ‘check.’ Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “It can be anything, Henry. Essay, experiment, song and dance. Just give me something I can slap a grade on.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Given the assumption that experiments would be carried out with technical perfection, the vaccine was a sure thing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to say, “Thank you for your time, sir, but this is just an experiment, you know, not my actual life. ” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z About the time of the Pascals' conversion, a friend of Étienne’s—a military engineer—came to visit and repeated Torricelli’s experiment for the Pascals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And I didn’t do anything on the next two lab experiments in Mr. Ferris’s class. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The chief difference between them and our modern scientific myth of the Big Bang is that science is self-questioning, and that we can perform experiments and observations to test our ideas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, ‘experiment’ became in English a technical term for something scientists do; but not, as we have seen, in French. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Come up with your experiment as a pair,” she repeated as if she hadn’t heard him at all. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “This school business was an experiment. Let us simply acknowledge that it was not a successful one.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Since then he had carried out such a prodigious number of pretty experiments that virtually no one except Cavalli dared to work in the same field. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z If I let him, Dad will think up little experiments for me all day long. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Compared with the tens of millions of people in ancient China or Mesoamerica, that meant that Australia had far fewer potential inventors, and far fewer societies to experiment with adopting innovations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Central to Gilbert’s enterprise was the claim that you could reproduce his experiments and confirm his results: his book was, in effect, a collection of experimental recipes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In their minds, the political stakes were enormous, the threat posed by the Federalists put the entire republican experiment at risk, the battle was to the death, and taking prisoners was not permitted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This experiment is known as ‘Pascal’s barrel’, although there is no evidence he conducted it himself; he did conduct experiments designed to illustrate the principle involved, but that had already been described by Mersenne. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If Ibn al-Haytham offered plenty of real experiments, medieval philosophy is also full of thought experiments designed to test the implications of theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “This is the problem with their blind commitment to these experiments,” Nita says next to us, as if sliding the words into the empty spaces of our minds. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Unable to afford the suit's matching top, she's been reduced to waddling the streets much like two women fused together in some sort of cruel experiment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Here the evidence is circumstantial, as it must be since we do not experiment on human beings, but it is nonetheless impressive. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ruby experiments with doing her eyes while I show Fina what Lily taught me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He could see the Englishman at his experiments, and the camel driver who was a teacher without realizing it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I approached her cautiously in case Viola had told her of my apparently shameful public experiment, but there was no special alarm in her eyes. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “The lab assistants live on this stuff when they run experiments at night,” he says. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z “The merit,” he told a friend, “lies in the carrying out and not the thinking out of the experiment.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She once conducted another experiment in which she set up a tasting booth with a variety of exotic gourmet jams at the upscale grocery store Draeger’s in Menlo Park, California. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Then I told the policeman how Mr. Vandermeer was teaching his rats to play basketball with a teeny ball for a science experiment. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The abbot, Cyril Knapp, also took an interest in breeding experiments. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Provoked, Galileo embarked on a series of experiments to study floating bodies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was as if he had encountered no statistical or natural error in his experiments—an impossible situation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Pascal’s experiment was different: it was put on as a public show, but still there is no reason to think that Pascal intended to publish any time soon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “At first a certain amount of patience was needed, but I soon found that matters went better when I was conducting several experiments simultaneously.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I guess if he had cared at all—if it had been important to him as it was to me—they would have used him for this experiment. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z At one point, she tried her experiment by playing passages not from LordJim but from Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, the book that launched the epic film. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He didn’t know how the experiment would turn out, and he came from a long line of rabble-rousers distrustful of the government, but Sam was hopeful. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Nah,” she said, turning her attention back to V, who was experimenting with her fingers on different keys. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Jo’s bed was never alike two seasons, for she was always trying experiments. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Ordinary people aren’t like the woman in the experiment outside London. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In Rutherford’s experiment, the alpha-particles had energies of millions of electron volts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, I think Mr. Neely has managed to brainwash me with his hashtags and experiments, because I kept thinking about the scientific process during therapy. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He hoped, by experimenting on us, to find out whether certain injections could help us to learn more and faster. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere, because I get answers to a lot of questions, but not to the most important question of all: How does Algernon’s regression affect the basic hypothesis of the experiment? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z This, finally, is the flaw in the experiment. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z "It's good because then we could compare notes, that's why. That's why when scientists do experiments, they do them lots of times—to compare the results." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the walls of the room were long charts with zigzagging red and black lines that traced the success or failure of some experiment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z This wasn’t a unique experiment, though, and nor was patriotic heroism confined to music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Finding the perfect medium was an ongoing experiment, but the biggest problem facing cell culture was contamination. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But scientific method was Thyon’s religion, and it dictated the repeat of experiments—even of failures. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For twenty years, over the entire life span of the revolutionary war and the experiment with republican government, Washington had stood at the helm of the ship of state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I mean, I thought we were two straight girls experimenting.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z In a second phase of the experiment, the researchers added a twist: Would the value of information be discounted even further—be even more urgent—depending on who it was from? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They also run individual plague experiments on some of the children who fail the Trial. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Their curiosity always got the best of them, making him feel like a science experiment, a cautionary tale. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Thus, in the case of the word ‘experiment’, linguistic change lags behind both theory and practice. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They'll put me in Dauntless, at first, because I already have tattoos, and that would be hard to explain to the people inside the experiment. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He took a personal interest in her, because some of his friends were collaborating in experiments to measure her diameter by Michelson’s interferometer. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The scientists on board kept up with their experiments, such as they were. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They did not live in the house, but came of an afternoon, or stayed there often for some weeks to perform their virtuosic experiments, and then leave. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But I wouldn’t be keeping within my experiment’s controlled variables if I used a nonhuman participant. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z When Uncle Jet asked him what he was doing with Nali out here, Nathan told him about his science experiment and that something was stealing the seeds. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z His face was gray in the light, and he looked to me like some poor victim of a medical experiment. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z If language provides only very limited assistance, how are we to know an experiment when we see one? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the same time I wrote a letter to Washington, breaking the news that my current experiments on the biochemistry of virus reproduction were at best interesting in a nonprofound way. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I wanted to show that an experiment wasn’t just about the facts, that it could really mean something. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z We can see a foreshadowing of this in the group of people which surrounded Gilbert as he conducted experiments on magnets, but for the most part these were fairly uneducated navigators. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He experiments, drawing with lithographic crayon over carpenter’s pencil, and uses a mixture of milk and water to fix the drawings to the paper. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Three fights and four innings later, I conceded that the experiment wasn’t working out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Az was the victim of a medical experiment, Tally,” Maddy said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z When the sluggers had finished experimenting on me that night, the slab I was resting on transformed into a chair while I was still on it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Following her stepfather’s example, she experimented with light and dark, using the contrast to create texture. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Theodor, in a series of elegant experiments, has shown that when two individuals of the same species are placed in close contact, the smaller of the two will always begin to disintegrate. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess it was a sort of experiment.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote about his babies, his experiments on them, and on his screaming sons. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, Eleanor’s sister whispered in the privacy of the marital bedroom, perhaps Dr. Montague—if that really was his name, after all—perhaps this Dr. Montague used these women for some—well—experiments. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Griffith’s experiment had generated widespread speculations about the molecular identity of the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His experiments showed that these germs could be killed by heat or particular chemicals. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Without some kind of breakthrough, the entire experiment with republican government at the national level would “burst and vanish, and the states separate to take care of everyone of itself.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was all too easy to imagine that the work had direct Nazi support and that his experiments were incorrectly analyzed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In this way most of the ambiguities of the Viking microbiology experiments could be resolved. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his sister mimic the Frenchman’s experiments; they make speedboats out of matchsticks and magnets out of sewing needles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Without experiment, there is no way to choose among contending hypotheses, no way for science to advance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The only exposure of the infant mice to urethane was prenatal in these experiments, proving that the chemical must have passed through the placenta. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Well, he might not know it the way that Thyon knew it, through experiments and empirical evidence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My dad felt like it was better for us to experiment in a controlled and safe setting, and while his logic made sense to me, I never took him up on his offer. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I don’t know what our egg dropper would have looked like if Mom had helped us, if she had been happy and real and full of experiments. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Janie, Mikayla’s best friend, raised her hand and explained that she, too, believed in animal rights and must be removed from the experiment. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, he died before he could conduct the experiments and both the idea and the necessary equipment were passed on to a brilliant but magnificently retiring London scientist named Henry Cavendish. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I was gratified by the eruption of hot flame, just like Miss Riley’s experiment, except mine was pink rather than green. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And after my plasma ball experiment had gone wrong, I didn’t want to push my luck. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for them, the place they’d chosen for their smoking experiment was the same one where Dusty Muleman had stored several surplus boxes of fireworks. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Harker groaned and said, “And this is all arrayed against my darling! But how is he experimenting? The knowledge may help us to defeat him!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A New York medical school professor performed an experiment to track the bullet's probable path. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In another example, a group of people are brought in for an experiment and told they are going to play a quiz game. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In experiments, children who are asked to read a passage and are then tested on it will invariably score higher than children asked to watch a video of the same subject matter. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When Schultz repeated the experiment with autistic people, however, he found that they used their object-recognition area for both the chairs and the faces. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He was sure that Griffith had made some terrible mistake in his experiment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z James experimented with toasting the bread on a stick. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The first recorded experiment on air was performed by a physician' named Empedocles, who flourished around 450 B.C. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Special relativity, fully worked out by Einstein in his middle twenties, is supported by every experiment performed to check it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, when Levanthal redid the experiment, one small change was sufficient to tip the vaccination rate up to 28 percent. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "We could experiment. We could find out how to make a small hot fire and then put green branches on to make smoke. Some of them leaves must be better for that than the others." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Having subjected hundreds of victims to experiments, he produced no more than a scratched, poorly annotated notebook with no noteworthy results. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Jazz celebrity though he was, Duke Ellington disliked his music being pigeonholed as ‘jazz’; he preferred simply to call it ‘American music’, and he experimented in many forms and genres. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z "Maybe. But I do not care to experiment. She-will make the trip just fine. Ginger is a genius." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z And to answer the question of whether his results were simply a fluke, four years later, in the Michael Dukakis-George Bush campaign, Mullen repeated his experiment, with the exact same results. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was no Project Me2, but the experiments were pretty cool. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z There is a significant group of intellectuals, working within the same tradition as Schaffer, who claim that experiments can never be replicated in a straightforward way. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had never liked animals at the best of times, being usually rather afraid of them; and of course years of doing cruel experiments on animals had made him hate and fear them far more. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Frisch, who had assisted his aunt with her experiments, had been evicted from the University of Hamburg under the Nazi racial laws, which barred Jews from high academic positions beginning in 1936. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Underlying experimentation, therefore, there must be a theory of the regularity and economy of nature; the natural world has to be the sort of world that could, in principle, be interpreted through experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And you can use the other one as a test subject for your new experiment.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z On the eve of this experiment I had just moved to northern California, far away from the New England woods and fields I knew. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In Donders’s experiment, one participant uttered a syllable, then the other repeated it as quickly as possible. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Such an approach implies that the sort of knowledge obtained by experiment need not be a reliable guide to how nature works. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Garzoni devised over a hundred experiments, many of which were copied by Gilbert. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z No one has so far mixed together the gases and waters of the primitive Earth and at the end of the experiment had something crawl out of the test tube. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is difficult for us to fathom fully the threat that Burr represented to Hamilton because we know that the American experiment with republican government was destined to succeed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z During these years he engaged in a number of different steam-engine experiments, the high point of which was the construction of a steam-powered carriage which ran around the floor of his parlour. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had all the crucial material for his experiment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Since tallness was dominant, all the parental plants in this experiment were tall to start; the recessive trait had disappeared. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I dare you to any such experiment. Encroach, presume, and the game is up.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He did not see the task as a ticket to fame, so he designed what he called a “quickie experiment” involving a single neutron detector placed in a stairway outside the cyclotron room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Many Ionians believed the underlying harmony of the universe to be accessible through observation and experiment, the method that dominates science today. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In animals, at least, there is abundant evidence from experiments. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The answer is simple: an experiment is an artificial test designed to answer a question. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The first person who rubbed two sticks together to make a fire was conducting an experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had then tested his new theory with a quite different experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I imagine I’m a world-famous scientist who was brutally kidnapped but managed to use her brilliance to escape to per- form this vital experiment. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Starting around 1700 B.C., though, Semites familiar with Egyptian hieroglyphs did begin to experiment with that logical step. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I hated that my experiment had caused a power outage. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He looked up, saw my face, and ceased his experiment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But the Iowa scientists did something else, and this is where the strange part of the experiment begins. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Always curious about the world around them, these learners ask lots of questions and like to do experiments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Brian demanded that we leave all the gear in the plane or it would ruin the whole experiment.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z First, I experimented to find out how steep the grade could be. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, not surprisingly, the results of these experiments were puzzling. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I appreciate your efforts in training the child, but I feel that this experiment has been severely mismanaged.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Enrico Fermi’s Chicago experiment had proved that it was possible to spark a chain reaction in uranium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Another is that his reference to an experimentum crucis is an implicit nod to Pascal’s Puy-de-Dôme experiment: Pascal’s experiment had been preceded by earlier experiments and earlier theorizing, but in a way that was irrelevant. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I’ve been experimenting with making letters out of different kinds of dough. I stand the letters up in the cupcake batter and carefully cover them with more batter.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Eventually an experiment can be reliably mass-produced by manufacturing special equipment designed to obtain precisely that result—the equipment and the results are interdependent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Was he just an experiment to him, something exotic to try on for size? Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I had been equipped by the organization with a demonstrator’s tools and I spent part of each day testing the soil and performing experiments. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She posted a flyer around campus, asking students if they’d like to be subjects in a psychology experiment, and got plenty of takers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Third, Roberval devised an experiment where a carp’s bladder which had been flattened and sealed tight was placed at the top of the Torricellian tube. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When it’s us, he’s regular, just a black guy who loves to geek out and experiment with making apps and learning coding. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Hahn wrote to Meitner at her new office in Sweden, describing the strange results of his experiment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This leaves the children to the streets, prey to any sight, any conversation, any sexual experiment that comes along to make their lives more interesting or pleasurable. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But to his credit, Reed let Lazear proceed with his experiments on a limited basis. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It is to be deplored that the experiment failed utterly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Then in the 1940’s the citrus growers began to experiment with glamorous new chemicals against other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His first significant contribution to science concerned the springiness, or compressibility, of air, and involved the most famous experiment of his illustrious career. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Pascal’s Puy-de-Dôme experiment seems pretty straightforward to us, but that is because we are used to modern physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “You know, if you just told me what you wanted me to do, we could skip the excruciating pain portion of this experiment.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The teachers are doing this as part of a weird social experiment to see if they can make students hate each other. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In comparison to sixteenth-century philosophy, all our sciences are applied sciences, and all our scientific knowledge is robust enough to withstand real-world application, if only in the form of experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They tried to feed me lines in those early experiments with the propos, too, and it was a flop. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Boyle constructed his air pump because the glass globe out of which the air was evacuated provided a better site for experiments than the space at the top of a barometer. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Each of the three microbiology experiments asked a different kind of question, but in all cases a question about Martian metabolism. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. T had to do some explaining, and after a while we were let back inside, but Luke wasn’t performing any more experiments for us. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z “I realize now,” one prisoner said after the experiment was over, “that no matter how together I thought I was inside my head, my prisoner behavior was often less under my control than I realized.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the job of an experiment subject to press a button whenever there was a two-second jump. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She experimented with different methods of carrying the grain bag. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t care about your stupid thought experiment,” I said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z It’s not like I’m doing a magic trick or a dangerous science experiment. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I wrote to Albus, describing, perhaps insensitively, the wonders of my journey, from narrow escapes from chimaeras in Greece to the experiments of the Egyptian alchemists. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z That’s how long it was going to take to get enough measurements for his science experiment. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Genesis. His choice. By the way, what kind of an experiment were you working on this afternoon, Mrs. Murry?” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was doing lab experiments by the third grade and studying physics and chemistry by the fifth grade. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z If an experiment turns out precisely as predicted, this can be very nice, but it is only a great event if at the same time it is a surprise. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The result was New experiments concerning the vacuum, published in 1647. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In modern English the distinction is clear: going to the ballet is an experience; the Large Hadron Collider is an experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So he did his first experiment at the University of Utah by cobbling together about $30 in parts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The Galápagos-in-a-carton experiment had demonstrated how a population of interbreeding organisms—flies, say—evolves over time.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That language was pioneered in English, where, for example, ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning during the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But it seems virtually certain that future scientists will still be talking about facts and theories, experiments and hypotheses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They believe that GMOs are a reckless experiment with the natural order of things. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Instead, I experimented with some new hairdos in the mirror, wondering what Oscar would think of a young lady with her hair pulled back in a ponytail. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Nathan didn’t feel that this was a good enough experiment because there were too many different factors. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But whenever he could, he did experiments, just as he had when he was in high school. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Berti’s experiment had been performed in a public place, but there is no evidence that it attracted any attention. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But de Vries still lacked Mendel’s crucial insight—that bolt of mathematical reasoning that had so clearly illuminated Mendel’s pea-hybrid experiments in 1865. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In the old days, the hut was where they tried experiments. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z For Adams, the American Revolution was still an experiment, a sail into uncharted waters that no other ship of state had ever successfully navigated. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Two of the other three experiments also chose to send food to the Martians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I commend him in his own right, for he is the co-architect of a great and noble experiment. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z All that the pairs were expected to do today was to come up with their experiments. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The Ebola experiments were not a success in the sense that the drugs had no effect on the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe we’re strangers no matter where we go, whether it’s to the world outside the Bureau, or here in the Bureau, or back in the experiment. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I thought science was all experiments and laboratories,” I admit. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z She would have sat with me for days, brainstorming different questions and experiments. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The purpose of the experiment was to try to find out why prisons are such nasty places. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s fast, and you were able to perform that experiment quickly because you were able to concentrate on the task and block out distractions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “She said that she will continue the experiments on Tobias instead of you,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z At issue was an experiment that Lawrence had conducted with James Cork of the University of Michigan on the disintegration of platinum under bombardment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A behavioral scientist could hardly design a better experiment in his laboratory. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z All of our ideas about the way the Universe works are now accepted as simply models which are put forward to explain observations and the results of experiments as best we can. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z What happened in that building was a kind of experiment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people weren’t interested in doing household experiments and instead played it safe by hiding indoors. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But still, in that moment, I saw us through her eyes: A failed experiment. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Since its homeland includes the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of Western civilization and animal domestication, ancient peoples must have experimented extensively with onagers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, scientists in other parts of the world were able to verify the commission’s experiments and prove the theory. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z There are fascinating ideas all over the place, irresistible experiments beyond numbering, all sorts of new ways into the maze of problems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard about them in histology, neurology, pathology; I used them in experiments on how neighboring cells communicate. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z By the time the ice was advancing again, the Hainish Withdrawal was complete and the Colonists were on their own, an experiment abandoned. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z There, in the forest at the edge of town, he decided to devote his life to an ambitious anthropological experiment. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had collected the founding material for his experiment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Now that I’d gotten my cereal cupcake recipe right, it was time to experiment with the food coloring. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Once Torricelli’s experiment had been accepted as a basic model, it was possible to devise all sorts of variations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Or when she accidentally—well, not accidentally, but how was she supposed to know?—picked the red flowers in Grandma's garden that were a hybrid experiment. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z The results of these experiments had been published and may have been known to Galileo. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Jacob worked at the other end of the attic, experimenting with a virus that infected E. coli. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Although Frederick Griffith’s experiment was the most definitive demonstration that the gene was a chemical, other scientists were also circling the idea. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Of course, such purposeful experiments cannot be carried out on human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The close relationship with the army flyers served as a constant reminder to the engineers that every experiment they conducted had real-world implications. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Previous experiments using the stadium as shelter had failed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z This in conjunction with the development of lightweight hollow-bronze casting enabled the Greeks to experiment with daring poses in monumental sculpture before attempting them in marble. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z If you were going to devise an experiment to measure the relative influences of nature versus nurture, you couldn’t come up with anything better than my life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Scientists in Czechoslovakia are experimenting with protozoa against webworms and other insect pests, and in the United States a protozoan parasite has been found to reduce the egg- laying potential of the corn borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Their ideas and brilliant work made the experiment possible. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z That they want to stop a revolution, not to save lives, but to save their precious experiment, would be enough. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded was an ideal experiment in genetic cleansing, they noted. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Besides, Nott did not perform any experiments to prove his theory. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Occasionally women are sent there as live specimens for medical experiments. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “What kind of science experiment is this, anyway?” she asked. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s been on pins and needles lately, hoping the results of the experiment could land in Nature, one of the leading scientific journals in the world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Despite this failure in actual practice, encouraging laboratory experiments led entomologists to believe lice were unlikely to develop resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The only survivors of the experiment were the two control monkeys—the healthy, uninfected monkeys that lived in cages across the room from the sick monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But on weekends I got to experiment, within limits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Though it had been experimenting with other philosophies for several centuries, when threatened with schism it turned orthodox once again. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z One might at first be inclined to dismiss this assertion as meaningless, because the experiment is imaginary and my claim about its outcome cannot be verified. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Empedocles performed his experiment with a household implement people had used for centuries, the so-called clepsydra or “water thief,” which was used as a kitchen ladle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Urban farmers were experimenting in cities across the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z While my talking experiment was going well with Sally and the other kids at school, I still couldn’t figure out how to speak to Mother. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Today,” she squeaked, “we are about to embark on a great experiment!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The country that experiments on and kills children who fail the Trial. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The shortcoming of the Schiehallion experiment was that it was not possible to get a truly accurate figure without knowing the actual density of the mountain. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z While the other children play hopscotch in the alley or swim in the canal, Werner sits alone in his upstairs dormer, experimenting with the radio receiver. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A day or so later he would often realize that his theory did not work and return to experiments, until boredom generated a new attack on theory. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But Bacon then complicates matters by using the adjective experimentalis to cover all knowledge grounded in experience; and he has no verb for ‘to experiment’ other than experiri. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Pig bones appeared in Jomon times on offshore islands where pigs do not occur naturally, making one wonder whether Jomon people were starting to experiment with pig domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He experimented with mirrors and lenses; some think he had a secret telescope. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The ideal tool is a roving vehicle carrying on advanced experiments, particularly in imaging, chemistry and biology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go ahead, laugh!” snorted Nemur, who nearly bumped into me, “but if we don’t find him, the whole experiment is in danger.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The only thing that made a difference, Payne found, was slowing the experiment down and forcing people to wait a beat before identifying the object on the screen. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z What mattered was his willingness to test that reasoning by clearly thought-out experiments, in public, and to stand by the results of the experiments—something that was still a novelty even in 1611. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Though he was generally polite and considerate of colleagues who did not realize the real meaning of their latest experiments, he would never hide this fact from them. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Presumably your friends feel less strongly about scientific experiments than mine. Yes.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Minho took a full three minutes to explain, starting with the Griever they followed and ending with the results of their rock- throwing experiment. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z For last year’s experiment, he had compared the background radiation around the mobile home with the background radiation in the Phoenix valley. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But we have been performing such experiments for only some thirty years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At last, he admitted, “The nature ... of the experiment... has changed.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But this period of hectic experiment was under threat: a religious storm was whipping up across the continent and music was in its path. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When you read his book you are a ‘virtual witness’ of his experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We would fly alongside the second Agena, and I would space walk over to it, and bring back an experiment package from it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Beck tried not to think about the painful reason he was doing zero-g plant growth experiments. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In late December 1938, in the German capital of Berlin, a chemist named Otto Hahn set up a new experiment in his lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, Brenner reported, all he could see in the experiment was the chemical equivalent of thick “California fog—wet, cold, silent.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I knew that the results I obtained were not easily compatible with our contemporary science,” Mendel wrote, and “an isolated experiment might be doubly dangerous.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z According to the article, the result of the experiment was that the two test subjects did indeed fall in love and get married. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Tobacco was acceptable in the form of a cigarette, but should any of us experiment with plug or snuff, we would automatically be disinherited. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Wait, didn’t I help you find books on science experiments a while back?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Indeed, della Porta’s experiments led him to adopt the opposite view: that you can use a diamond to make, rather than unmake, a magnet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From around the middle of the seventeenth century there is a flood of adjectives that appear in English for scientific experiments, theories or discoveries, all based on the names of scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Moving about doing experiments is much warmer than sitting in the library with one’s feet on a table. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z So from this one experiment we learned the masses of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the other planets and their moons, and got contour lines into the bargain–not bad for a summer’s work. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Okay, I know it’s not a real hypothesis—by that, I mean something you can design an experiment to test. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z So he repeated the experiment with mercury, and reproduced the anomalous space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “A twisted experiment where he wants to check how well we can teach ourselves.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I also give my consent for my children and my children's children, etc., to continue in this experiment until such time as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare deems it to be complete. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Pascal’s new hydraulics is an extension of his vacuum experiments, but Galileo’s work on floating bodies is not path-specific in this way. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Most other scientists, however, were willing to accept quantum mechanics because it agreed perfectly with experiment. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By this definition, though, going to the ballet is an experiment, while learning that the seats are uncomfortable and the drinks sold in the bar overpriced is a chance experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They had the rest of the week to implement their experiments, and by Friday their final reports were due. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z "I was experimenting on chemical fertilizers," Theo replied, wincing as the doctor probed his shoulder for a glass shard. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The testing, the experiment, the surgery, and my subsequent mental development were described at length, and his talk was enlivened by quotations from my progress reports. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He was annoyed at having his experiments interrupted, and snapped his fingers in irritation. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Doppler’s example returned to Mendel: there was music behind noise, laws behind seeming lawlessness, and only a profoundly artificial experiment—creating hybrids out of purebred strains carrying simple traits—could reveal these underlying patterns. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “No dæmons...Well, that’s very interesting. I wonder if I might suggest a little experiment, if you can spare one of them? I’d like to see whether the Specters are interested in them.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Far more species have become extinct in the history of the Earth than exist today; they are the terminated experiments of evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “A new experiment,” he said to the class, clapping his hands together before he turned back to us. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But he had been dissuaded from experimenting with it by head coach Rusty Callow. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Holmes gave him a blank look and said he was not conducting any experiments. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Can’t you understand that the thing is a great experiment? The whole point of sending anyone into the Other Place is that I want to find out what it’s like.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z He sat for a moment smoking and experimenting. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z In the Iowa gambling experiment, the gamblers started avoiding the dangerous red decks long before they were actually aware that they were avoiding them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z At just the time that Henry Cavendish was completing his experiments in London, four hundred miles away in Edinburgh another kind of concluding moment was about to take place with the death of James Hutton. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。