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:

    “Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.”
    —Roy Lichtenstein (b. 1923)