Experiments Quotes

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The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a… — James Prescott Joule
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to… — Maria Montessori
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. — Albert Einstein
It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about… — Steven Weinberg
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac
Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate,… — Karl Popper
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.… — James Clerk Maxwell
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till… — Francis Darwin
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before… — Ernst Mach
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty. — Henri Poincare
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. — Claude Bernard
Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the… — James Clerk Maxwell
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer… — Hermann Bondi
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there… — Izaak Walton
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the… — Donald Cram

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