Art Quote by Antoine Lavoisier

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

— Evan Esar

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to…

— Angus Deaton

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of…

— Paul A.M. Dirac

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

— Philip Kitcher

Why speculate when you can calculate?

— John C. Baez

“people rely on a limited number of heuristic principles which reduce the complex tasks of assessing probabilities and predicting values to simpler judgmental operations.…

— Daniel Kahneman

Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to…

— Antoine Lavoisier

In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge,…

— William Whewell

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis,…

— Enrico Fermi

Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are…

— Edmund Pellegrino

“science cannot even make probability judgements on”

— Richard Dawkins