Negative Result

A negative result may refer to:

  • Proof of impossibility, a proof that a particular problem cannot be solved.
  • Null result, a result which shows no evidence of the intended effect.

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or result:

    “The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short- cut answer.”
    —Margaret Mead (1901–1978)

    “A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate”
    —Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)