Experiment Quotes

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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before… — Christiaan Barnard
The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and taxed at virtually… — Jeff Baxter
A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same certain and… — Johannes Peter Muller
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil.… — Nicholas Kurti
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy… — Balfour Stewart
I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up… — Frederic Joliot-Curie
Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the… — Joseph Black
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of… — Antoine Lavoisier
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if… — William Shockley
Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a clichÃ©. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to… — Paul Halmos
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was… — J. A. Ratcliffe
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what… — David Quammen
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe something based on… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy. — Walther Nernst
The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has… — Arthur Compton
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it.… — J. B. Priestley
Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird… — Huntington Willard
In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into space,… — Marshall Savage

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