Experiments Quote by Albert Einstein

It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon…

— Anthony Standen

Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

— Norbert Wiener

Certainly to me it has been valuable to have to think through the basics of physics in order to present them in a halfway…

— Jim Peebles

What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and…

— Walter Lewin

“Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Physics doesn’t take something fascinating and make it…

— Max Tegmark

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every…

— Walter Isaacson

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that…

— Marvin Minsky

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

— Max Planck