Another Quote by Alison Gopnik

We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its…

— Ronald Fisher

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

— Norwood Russell Hanson

Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

— Carl Sagan

One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions…

— Laurence J. Peter

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

— August Wilhelm von Hofmann

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

— Adam Smith

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

— Banesh Hoffmann

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

— Vernon Howard

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

— Richard P. Feynman

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

— Philip Kitcher