Experiments Quotes

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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
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. — Francis Bacon
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the… — Linus Pauling
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because… — John Dewey
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally. — Albert Einstein
I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them. — Thomas A. Edison
I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh.… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I give them experiments and they respond with speeches. — Louis Pasteur
I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse… — Willis R. Whitney
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
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method… — Alfred Binet
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense… — Luis Walter Alvarez
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ...… — Fritjof Capra
If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always… — George Herbert
In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other… — Isaac Newton
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no… — Benjamin Franklin
In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a… — George W. Bush

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