Discovery Quote by Enrico Fermi

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

— Enrico Fermi

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then…

— Enrico Fermi

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis,…

— Enrico Fermi

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

— Bill Gaede

“With each step in the process, we used the method of science: Observe. Hypothesize. Predict. Experiment. Compare what you expected with what really happened.”

— Bill Nye

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

— Arthur Eddington

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

— Nate Silver

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that…

— Lynne Rae Perkins

Science is prediction, not explanation.

— Fred Hoyle

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

— Abraham Pais

A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new…

— Edwin Powell Hubble