History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
Somehow it always seems that the crummier the test, the higher the heritability it produces.
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen with a wide felt tip. "Stand here and we'll see how you've done," she said, which is sort of like a dentist handing you a mirror and saying, "Sit here and watch while I drill a hole in your tooth.
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.
The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.
There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.
God tests, but he does not tempt.
Based on hundreds of tests conducted, a good headline can be as much as 17 times more effective than a so-so headline. And this is with exactly the same body copy!
And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of weakness. When you're weak, do you compromise, do you bend, do you give in, do you accommodate? And then the test of strength. When you're strong, are you merciful, are you generous, or are you cruel?
Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.