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 little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)