Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. – E. O. Wilson
I only drive in movies. I know that’s very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test. – Penelope Cruz
Usually, if I think something is really funny, I’m not gonna test it. I’ll just test it when I’m onstage. – Donald Glover
A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it’s not your fault – you need to have your oven checked. – Delia Smith
The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. – Diane Wood
I’ve been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged seven – I got to school at 7:30 A.M. to practise, I was so nervous. After that, I always cycled to school. – Erin O’Connor
There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. – Diane Wood
Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. – David Herbert Donald
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. – D. H. Lawrence
The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever. – David Hewson
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Against Bermane Stiverne, they said he was going to be the toughest test, but I passed that with flying colours. – Deontay Wilder
I want to put everything I think I’ve learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas. – Peter Jackson
Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale. – Ernest Lawrence
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test. – Gene Tierney
Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ. – David Guetta
I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject – the cultural and sociological geography – to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing. – David Maraniss
I think a lot of teachers feel like they’re teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid. – Erin Gruwell
People often ask whether Obama passes the ‘kishka test:’ whether he likes Israel special, not in the same way he likes Taiwan or South Korea? Does he? I think the kishka test was decided when he visited Israel. I think the reaction there was emotional and genuine. – Michael Oren
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter’s emotions come across? – Franz Kline
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood. – Charles Eastman
I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody’s brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register. – Mary-Kate Olsen
Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test the boundaries. – Dean Karnazes
The most important factor in college admissions is a test that benefits those who are least prepared for college. – Eliot Schrefer
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace. – David Ogilvy
I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible. – Mary Steenburgen
What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys. – Douglas Brinkley
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. – Eddie Izzard