Experimental Quotes

304 quotes by 259 authors

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible. — Peter D. Mitchell
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things. — John C. Dvorak
The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept contrary… — Frederick Seitz
Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as… — George Polya
Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe… — David M. Raup
There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing… — Lionel Tiger
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on. — Oliver Heaviside
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. — Hermann Ebbinghaus
[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to PoincarÃ©:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact. — Gabriel Lippmann
Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California,… — P.J. O'Rourke
[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do… — Isaac Todhunter
..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and… — David Hume
Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems. — Wilhelm Wundt
There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us. — Wilhelm Wundt
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry! — Alan Bradley
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental… — Yuan T. Lee
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a… — Maria Montessori
The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys — Albert Sabin
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter… — Stephanie Mills
One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror. — William Kenneth Hartmann

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