Experimentation Quotes

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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. — Marcus Aurelius
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Auster
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science. — Claude Bernard
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and… — John Dewey
At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first… — Abraham Flexner
Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. — Max Delbruck
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature. — Isaac Asimov
Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the… — Gaston Bachelard
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of… — George Wald
All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot… — Richard G. Scott
The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in… — Susan C. Aldridge
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. — John Spencer
The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important… — Bengt I. Samuelsson
Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or… — Anjelica Huston
We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected. — Dalai Lama
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions… — Moby
...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way… — J M Coetzee

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