Sentence examples for speaking of experiments from inspiring English sources

Speaking of experiments, Gawker.com has a fun recap of Jersey Shore that writer Brian Moyler coined as, "the most important sociological experiment of our time".

This question, which also used phrases like "your federal tax dollars" and speaks only of "experiments," not the lofty goals of the research, was not written by a pollster but by the bishops' chief lobbyist on the issue, Richard A. Doerflinger.

In actual fact, the literature and experiences of urban design speak of new experiments of considerable interest with respect to certain classic problems: what does doing urban design on a city-wide scale mean?

Astronomers, for example, sometimes speak of "natural experiments".

But on careful reading of the text, it is evident that Bacon speaks of animal experiments Bacon [28, p 368].

On the subject of cyberbullying, Costolo spoke of ongoing experiments with technological solutions that would better filter out "egregious, obvious harassment," noting that the challenge facing the company is in finding a scalable solution to that problem.

The absence of established methods to assess data accuracy and even of a common understanding of the problem makes it hard to speak of reproducibility of experiments and objective comparison of results, in particular in a research field where the complexity of human behaviour is an intrinsic challenge to the scientific method.

For various reasons, after the discovery of quantum mechanics it quickly became almost universal to speak of an experiment associated with an operator A in the manner just sketched as a measurement of the observable A — as if the operator somehow corresponded to a property of the system that the experiment in some sense measures.

Whewell explained that "though the discovery of the First Law of Motion was made, historically speaking, by means of experiment, we have now attained a point of view in which we see that it might have been certainly known to be true independently of experience" (1847, I, 221).

Gopnik's findings -- that four-year-olds are better at finding out unlikely probabilities than adults, and that play is really a series of experiments -- speak to the importance of preserving opportunities for play in early childhood settings.

It spoke of "the grand experiment" that Paterno carried out at Penn State by stressing academics and athletic success.