Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in…

“Charlatan” was held to be a synonym for empirick. The word “empiric” designated someone who relied on experiment and experience to ascertain what was…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is the empiric who never fails.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible…

— Irving Langmuir

If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out…

— Alexander Shulgin

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

— Etienne Gilson

The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in…

— Maria Montessori

Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi,…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research…

— Benedict Fitzgerald

In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new…

— Michael Smith

My mind is my laboratory.

— Albert Einstein

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls…

— Margaret Mead

Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the…

— John Burroughs

We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up…

— Arthur C. Clarke

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity.…

— Akio Morita

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.…

— Stanley Milgram