Experiments Quote by Ernest Rutherford

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

— Ernest Rutherford

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

— Ernest Rutherford

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Nate Silver

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

— Ronald Fisher

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

— Evan Esar

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may…

— Ronald Fisher

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

— Walther Nernst

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

— Philip Kitcher

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

— W. G. Sebald

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps…

— Ronald Fisher

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to…

— Angus Deaton