Absence Quote by Bari Weiss

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

— Lisa Randall

Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some…

— Hilary Kornblith

If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

— Wolfgang Pauli

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

— Richard P. Feynman

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

— Nate Silver

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

— Hannes Alfven

There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation…

— Carl Sagan

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

How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

— Kristin Cashore

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

— Melvin Calvin

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

— V. S. Pritchett