Experiments Quote by Ernest Rutherford Download Open image “If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment” — Ernest Rutherford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Experiments Research Science Statistics
If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy. — Walther Nernst Copy Share Image
Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
