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The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

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

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.

I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced.

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.

I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn't find out what was wrong. They discovered that one of my kidneys wasn't working properly, and it had scarred. I had to have 32 injections in my arm in the morning and evening to try and make me better.

Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.

When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

The hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.

From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.'

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I remember doing my SATs on a film set; you had to complete the tests in a certain time and, obviously, you couldn't be interrupted. I think I did pretty well; it wasn't too difficult.

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

Everyone has tests in their life. They come in lots of different forms. I had two or three together, which definitely challenged me as a person and as a sportsman. The big thing is how you react to those situations. You want to come out positively at the other end, and that's what I focused on doing.

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

We are pleased to report recent tests show dramatic improvement in his bone density, making surgery possible. While initially beneficial at managing the pain, in recent months, the injections have not been as effective and the pain has only intensified. Delaying surgery is no longer a viable treatment option.

We've already shown in tests that we're capable of doing 1 million gallons a day.

We've already completed the tests on mercury and fish and . . . so far there's nothing to alarm us,

We've already brought people up for Akio and Christoph and the guys who just got onto the fire department. Between that and the injuries it's been unreal this year. I mean. it's great that our guys make the national team, but all this really tests our depth.

We are pleased to be able to work so closely with Brian, his team of trainers and coaches, and especially the elite athletes that look to TEST Sports Clubs to improve their performance. Our cutting-edge approach to athlete nutrition matches is a perfect complement to TESTs approach of using science and creativity to open new horizons for elite athletes.

We believe that the avoidance-maneuver tests we conduct provide consistent results and closely simulate a read-world situation in which a driver needs to suddenly steer around an obstacle in the road. In our view the tests are repeatable and valid.

There are currently 239 certified technicians who will run the tests at 115 auto workshops in Jakarta.

Until we get through those tests and doctors have had time to sit down and confer with Kayla and with her family, I don't think we're going to have any answers. Until we can get those evaluations, I don't think we have any opportunity to discuss anything else.

Until they go through fitness tests it's impossible to know if they are totally right. If you remember, we all thought Simon Jones would be fit to play at the Oval and he didn't.

Until now students take the tests and nothing is done with the information.

Whether the two cells were tailor-made can be found out after the panel's DNA tests are completed.

We've been able to get a lot of guys in. We know that we're going to see tougher tests down the road and we're just dedicating ourselves to keep working hard and try to stay physically ready.

We've always stood up well in comparison with our competitors in technical tests but users disliked that they had to pay $39 and that we had ads. We decided to eliminate these obstacles in order to attract users.

What a lot of people don't realize is these tests are given in preparation for the 10th-grade GQE. That's the one with the highest stakes for individual students. They have to eventually pass that to graduate.