Tests Quotes

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Samuel Richardson

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

Starhawk

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Peter D. Mitchell

You can't invent yourself as you maunder on. Your fabrications aren't going to impress the blood test, the urinalysis or the chest X-ray. Science is not amused.

John Leonard

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

George Crabbe

I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.

Paula Jones

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

Maurice Sendak

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Antoine Lavoisier

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

Hal Clement

Comfort is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being comfortable.

Swami Vivekananda

I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

Rafael Palmeiro

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Godfrey Harold Hardy

Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.

Karl Popper

HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.

Roger Goodell

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

Jeremy Rifkin

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

Peggy Fleming

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

William Petersen

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that ridicule is the test of truth.

Thomas Carlyle