Experiments Quotes · Page 15

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

— Pierre Duhem

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal…

— Banesh Hoffmann

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

— Friedrich Paneth

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

— Samuel Johnson

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult…

— Lisa Randall

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You…

— Judd Apatow

Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

— Charles Darwin

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

— Monty Don

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as…

— John Joseph Griffin

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans…

— Frans de Waal

Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected.…

— Amelia Earhart

Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole…

— George Polya

No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in…

— Ronald Fisher

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe…

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers…

— James A. Garfield

This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that…

— Bill Bryson

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at…

— Alfred Binet

Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as…

— Huntington Willard

For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked…

— Annie Baker

It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never…

— Claude Bernard

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it…

— Anonymous

Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don't nourish any desire for happiness, and then…

— Rajneesh

The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other…

— Thomas Young

An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other…

— Hermann Bondi

I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even…

— C. S. Lewis

If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

— Alison Gopnik

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have…

— Anonymous

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

— Henri Poincare

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth,…

— Roger Bacon

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

— Beverly Sills

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

— Ira Glass

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

— Jeff Bezos

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of…

— Ray Bradbury

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

— Francis Bacon

There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember…

— Sri Aurobindo