Experiment Quotes

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It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question… — Claude Bernard
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even… — Henri Poincare
There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. . . . Many… — Michio Kaku
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. — Samuel Gompers
The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait… — Tom Peters
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the… — Ayn Rand
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a… — Walter E. Williams
The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of… — Thomas Jefferson
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to… — Willis R. Whitney
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws… — Arthur Eddington
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and… — Carl Sagan
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive. — James Anthony Froude
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions… — Robert Andrews Millikan
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which… — Rosalind Franklin
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a… — James Prescott Joule
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to… — Maria Montessori
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. — Albert Einstein
It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about… — Steven Weinberg
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac

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