Sentence examples for an experiment upon from inspiring English sources

Kant is suggesting that reason conduct an experiment upon itself an idea that comes close to paradox.

At some point, Daniel also performed an experiment upon himself, resulting in long-term memory damage.

He is arid, amoral, as if his life were an experiment performed upon himself.

We tested this hypothesis with an experiment, based upon global gene expression, to identify networks of genes in which expression patterns in inguinal fat of mice have been altered by the nutritional environment during early post-natal development.

A simulation experiment upon a real gas-turbine plant is performed using the digital-control model.

Contemporaries were scarcely impressed – "a facetious experiment upon public intelligence" suggested one – and even now it is hard to decide whether it is, or is not, absolutely horrid.

Some years ago, an experiment was done upon baby chimpanzees to demonstrate their innate need for a maternal presence.

This association is such that the probability distribution of the result Z of an experiment, when performed upon a system with wave function ψ, is given by <ψ | O dz)ψ> (where < | > is the usual inner product between quantum state vectors).

"We are embarked upon an experiment that no one has ever tried," Brown said last month, when he announced rationing.

If the inquirer can find a person to experiment upon who is well trained in a certain type of scientific work, intelligent and earnest in his devotion to it, and unaccustomed to metaphysics, let him probe into various presuppositions that his 'subject' has been taught to make in the course of his scientific education, and invite him to justify each or alternatively to abandon it.

Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an experiment in mice to hit upon a way to possibly skip this fiddly step by instead relying mostly on signals within the body to keep the stem cells in line.