Home / Topics / Tests Quotes

Tests Quotes

Browse 2780 quotes about Tests.

Tests Quotes

“No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.”

Ifs Humans Tests Logic Claims Proof Certainty Mathematical Uncertainty Reasoning Investigation Ontology Mathematical Proof

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's really crazy.”

Humans Persons Long Hours Human Beings Crazy Tvs Jokes Tests Stronger Stronger Person

Author:Rebecca Romijn

“This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.”

Way Humans Struggle Office Tests Institutions Way To Live

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

“Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.”

Men Humans May Art Action Grace Honor Future Quiet Gains Tests Sight Regard Makers Attributes Majesty Magnificence Human Actions

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.”

Humans Light Age Justice Dark Human Beings Liberty Moral Christianity Greater Society Civilization Equal Tests Universal Slave Goddess Toys Savages Sentimental Dark Ages

Author:George William Curtis

“They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.”

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.”

Feels Humans Real Feelings Existence Tests Boundaries Obligation Contributing Validity Consolidation

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.”

“The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.”

Ifs Humans Heart Body Lines Walks Tests Legs Drunk Pairs Human Heart Human Body Straight Lines

Book:Plays: 1957-1980: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Source: Plays: 1957-1980: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

“Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.”

Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

“Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.”

Source: Film as Art

“Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself, can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.”

Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

“Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.”

Humans Children Reason Found Hurt Human Beings Empathy Tests Our Children Triumph Anatomy

Book:The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

Source: The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

“Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.”

Giving Humans Light Spirit Tests Climate Warm Charm Radiation Perfume Human Spirit Tubes Chemist Emanate

Author:Fannie Hurst

“Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.”

Humans Heart Stories Imagination Powerful Effort Creative Design Demand Percent Labor Tests Insight Finished Maturity Human Heart Vivid Analytics Finished Work Vivid Imagination

Author:Robert McKee

“A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.”

Humans Long Opportunity Space Tests Missions Realistic Capability Technological Robots Duration Space Travel Hybrid Asteroids Spacecraft Spaceflight Deep Space

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.”

Source: Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman

“The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.”

Ifs Knows Humans Has Beens Philosophy Whole Failing Building Tests Starting Data Theoretical Starting Point

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.”

Trying Humans Heart Individual Existence Mystery Judging Sitting Tests Asking Confession Human Heart Cant Asking Questions

Author:Athol Fugard

“We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.”

Humans Political Sound Can Do Animal Modern Limits Tests Absolutes Modern Life Blast

Author:John Baird

“I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.”

Source: ON AGRESSION

“We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such a powerof guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.”

Mind Humans May Has Beens Whole Science Support Tests Intelligent Majority Leaving Expected Abandon Human Mind Hypothesis Guessing

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another...and still to this day babies fed on the most "nutritionally complete" formula fail to do as well as babies fed human milk. Even more than margarine, formula stands as the ultimate test product of nutritionism and a fair index of its hubris.”

Humans Wells Has Beens Stills Failing Products Baby Fairs Tests Ultimate Feds This Day Formulas Milk Overlooked Hubris Nutrients

Author:Michael Pollan

“[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries.”

People Humans America Human Beings Creative Teaching Taught Capable Discovery Tests Originals Treated Emphasis Cattle Teaching And Learning Memorizing

Author:Kesha Rogers

“As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. I do not mean the sentimental statement that all men are brothers, but that one must feel the oneness of human life.”

Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

“The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.”

Source: Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures

“"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.”

“We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.”

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all....If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.”

Ifs Humans Care Christ Tests Rewards Supreme Recognition

Author:Arthur Tappan Pierson

“You and I were created for joy, and if we miss it we miss the reason for our existence. If our joy is honest joy, it must somehow be congruous with human tragedy. This is the test of joy's integrity. It is compatible with pain. Only the heart that hurts has a right to joy.”

Ifs Humans Heart Reason Pain Joy Hurt Existence Honest Missing Integrity Tests Tragedy Compatible

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.”

“I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human endeavors, but I think the methodology of our science - using it to postulate and to use the proper approach of creating falsifiable hypotheses and then testing them to see if they ring true, and then progressing by finding the anomalies to our theoretical structure, and then improving our theoretical structure to take care and test the anomalies - is the way to go, because that helps us discover what the universe.is all about and our relationship to it.”

“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.”

Humans Shows Failing Tests Construction Again And Again Show Me Familiarity

Author:Brian Christian

“I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great character on a great emotional quest with a great emotional need? Do they overcome great emotional obstacles? Is it a fantastic story? I didn't set out to be a political activist. I'm just a human being who's moved by certain things, and if certain things break my heart, I set out to fix them.”

“As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.”

Humans America President Rights Middle Tests Human Rights China East Russia Our Time Allies Middle East Signals Adversaries

Author:Carly Fiorina

“We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously. Iran's recent missile test, for example, was a violation of its international obligations.”

Humans Stills Support Rights Example Program Tests International Human Rights Terrorism Obligation Iran Violation Sanctions Missiles Violation Of Human Rights

Author:Barack Obama

“Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.”

“I couldn't have asked for a better acting partner and a better human being to work with. We have to work very closely together, and I felt, in our screen test, that we had really good chemistry, but I wasn't sure if I was just making that up. Max has written a really finely wrought bromance. I have complete trust in Elijah [Wood].”

Ifs Humans Together Felt Human Beings Acting Written Tests Woods Screens Partners Chemistry Max Elijah Bromance

Author:Samuel Barnett

“I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.”

Humans Song Tests Productions Components Test Of Time

Author:Ryan Tedder

“When you see a Tibetan doctor taking care of a patient, first of all, of course there are many wonderful medicines that come from [there in the past] 2,000 years. But this doctor is usually so attentional, so kind, and so careful of what you really feel and then [he sees] you as a human being instead of running you through some quick tests. So that itself, the trust and confidence in someone that cares for you is of course so invigorating... that someone cares.”

Feels Years Firsts Humans Kind Care Running Past Courses Human Beings Wonderful Doctors Tests Medicine Patient Careful Tibetan Invigorating Care For You

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“Together with my advisor, Manuel Blum, I co-invented CAPTCHAs, or computer-generated tests that humans are routinely able to pass but that computers have not mastered (they are the squiggly computer letters that are prevalent across the web).”

Humans Able Together Computer Letters Tests Advisors

Author:Luis von Ahn

“Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes, or heroin? Of course not. And there is NO such thing as a rational - or ethical - meat, dairy, egg and honey-eater when it comes to animal issues and whether humans should be enslaving, murdering and eating animals, or using them as test subjects, clothing and entertainment.”

“Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.”

Life Inspirational Humans Human Beings Tests Dear Rely Dear God

Author:Agnes Macphail

“Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.”

Humans Animal Tests Compare Measuring Human Intelligence Animal Intelligence

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.”

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

“Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.”

Humans Real Sports Human Beings Lord Tests Later In Life Pampered

Author:Willie Stargell

“Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.”

Humans Matter Science Religion Conditions Tests Blind Assumption Human Condition Blind Faith

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.”

Giving Humans May Numbers Brain Technology Human Nature Birth Tests Infinite Thrive Affinity

Book:Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

Source: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.”

World Humans Philosophy Lasts Individual Difficult Human Beings Love Is Tasks Tests Ultimate Claims Sake Proof Preparation

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke