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All life is an experiment. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your
actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What
if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you
shall never be so afraid of a tumble. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent
untried by me; but it does not avail me that they [my seniors] have tried it. Life is an endless series of experiments. Remember, life is not a continuous attempt to
light the cave. Life is standing in the light. Life for [the American] is always becoming,
never being. [1879-1955 German/American physicist, Nobel Prize, 1921], Ideas and Opinions Life is a lively process of becoming. Life is not a having
and a getting, but a being and a becoming. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of
states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a
state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory
of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. "Camino Real," 1953 Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is
their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve
problems, to fend off madness and chaos. Life is a maze in which we take the wrong
turning before we have learned to walk. To be ushered into life, blindly to toil a few
years through its fitful maze, and then to go out in darkness is surely not the
method of wise design. Life must mean more than this, and it does mean more. Life is a mission. Every other definition of
life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science,
philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree in this, that
every existence is an aim. Life and Writings Life is a mission, not a career. Annual Worldwide Lessons in Leadership Series," 1997 Life is…a mystery as deep as ever death can
be. Life is not a problem to be solved, nor a
question to be answered. Life is a mystery to be experienced. Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to
be solved. Life is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don’t
have the picture on the front of the box to know what it’s supposed to look
like. Sometimes, you’re not even sure if you have all the pieces. Most people think of life as a puzzle to which
pieces are constantly being added. My life started as a completed puzzle, but I’ve
lost too many pieces along the way for it to ever be that way again. Life is…the only riddle that we shrink from
giving up. I count life just a stuff Life is a great surprise. Life is a series of surprises, and would not be
worth taking or keeping if it were not. —Essays, Second Series, "Experience" Life is a test and this world a place of trial.
Always the problems—or it may be the same problem—will be presented to every
generation in different forms. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949 Is life worth living? Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and
fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. The Kingdom of God Is within You, 1893 One of the wonders of life is just that—the
wonder of life. |