Middle ages Quote by Anonymous

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

— Max Planck

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

— Isaac Asimov

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in…

— Richard Ernst

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a…

— Richard P. Feynman

It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is,…

— Peter Medawar

Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to…

— Louis Pasteur

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

— John Lasseter

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

— Paul Auster

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other…

— Conor Oberst

Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us.…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult…

— Bertrand Russell