At the beginning of all experimental work stands the…

Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in…

— Ian Hacking

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was…

— Robert B. Laughlin

The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy…

— Francis Darwin

My work is entirely surgical, and Col. Starr has given me a very interesting task of collecting nerve cases that have had the nerves…

— Frederick Banting

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

— Trey Parker

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one…

— Martin Lewis Perl

I've done experimental work, I've done real conventional documentaries that were very successful, like Las Madres that was nominated for an Academy Award. And,…

— Lourdes Portillo

Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some…

— Hilary Kornblith

There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there…

— John Ashworth Ratcliffe

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as…

— Charles Manning Child

Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information,…

— George W. Bush

Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines - putting the burden of any future research squarely on…

— Michael Bloomberg

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

— Carl Sagan

A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of…

— Joshua Foer