Experimental Quotes

304 quotes by 259 authors

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living. — John Cage
I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not… — Isaac Newton
Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experimental… — Neal A. Maxwell
Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of… — John B. Watson
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of… — Oswald Spengler
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only… — Samuel Johnson
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when… — Emma Goldman
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of… — Francis Crick
Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was… — Mirra Alfassa
I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment. — Edgard Varese
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being… — Humphry Davy
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts. — Michael Faraday
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi
Iâ€™ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support. — Brian Greene
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. — Murray Gell-Mann
Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book. — William Shakespeare
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient… — Wilhelm Wundt
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique — Edmund White
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from… — Francois Jacob
All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some… — Simon Singh

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