Experiments Quote by Claude Bernard

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

— Claude Bernard

“Given the right experimental manipulations, people can be led to believe that they consciously intended an action when they neither chose it nor had…

— Sam Harris

Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées. Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

— Anonymous

“We suffer sometimes from the hubris of believing that control is a matter of applying sufficient force, or a sufficiently detailed set of instructions.”

— Mark Burgess

“The first step in battling the illusion of control is to be aware of if. But even then it is difficult, once we think…

— Leonard Mlodinow

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which…

— Banesh Hoffmann

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step…

— Richard Powers

It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a…

— Claude Bernard

Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us…

— David Tudor

It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but…

— Henri Poincare

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics…

— George Wald