Literary notes about experiment (AI summary)
The word “experiment” in literature is employed with remarkable versatility, often straddling the literal and the metaphorical. In some texts it denotes a daring, life-risking trial or a controlled scientific procedure—consider the unsafe experiment risking life in [1] or Thomas Jefferson’s methodical numeric tests in [2] and [3]—while in others it serves as a metaphor for personal venture or creative inquiry, as seen in the repeated trials for success in [4] and the adventurous spirit in [5]. Moreover, authors use the term to invite readers to witness both empirical investigation and imaginative exploration, where the outcomes are as unpredictable as they are revelatory, thus enriching the narrative with shades of uncertainty and discovery ([6], [7]).
- At the risk of forfeiting his life it is an unsafe experiment.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer - This experiment determines a numerical value of the co-efficients; it is not of a nature to serve as a check upon the theoretical principles.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Comparison of the formulæ with experiment.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - They tried the experiment, and succeeded to their heart’s content.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay - I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs - But this theory can be tested by experiment.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - "When I grow up I am going to make great scientific discoveries and I am going to begin now with this experiment."
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
