Absolutes Quote by Claude Bernard

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

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

— Claude Bernard

Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They become a…

— Louis Pasteur

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

— Richard P. Feynman

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

— Richard P. Feynman

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

— Max Planck

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?

— George Berkeley

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

— Claude Bernard

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

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

— Isaac Asimov

For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and…

— Wernher von Braun