Experiments Quotes

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Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than… — Marjory Stephenson
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn… — Gregor Mendel
When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and… — Gregor Mendel
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
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point… — Hermann von Helmholtz
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
[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently… — Hudson Gurney
[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
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing… — Edward Mills Purcell
It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a… — Ascanio Sobrero
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
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Clifford Shull
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as… — John Constable
Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall… — Herbert C. Brown
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain… — Leon Foucault
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking… — Frederic Joliot-Curie
That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with… — Gregor Mendel
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

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