Experimental Quotes

304 quotes by 259 authors

The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most… — Humphry Davy
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron… — Hermann Minkowski
There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students… — George Wald
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of… — Thomas Kuhn
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I… — Albert Claude
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,… — Luis Walter Alvarez
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a… — Herbert Croly
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known,… — Frederick Soddy
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental… — Ivan Pavlov
My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of… — Martin Lewis Perl
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. — Peter Debye
Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important… — Charles Manning Child
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
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or… — M. King Hubbert
According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in the experimental practice… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically… — Edmund Pellegrino
Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but… — Rudolf Carnap
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
A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion. — Hermann von Helmholtz

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