Concepts Quote by Ernest Sosa

An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject…

— Ian Stevenson

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

— Claude Bernard

IF there is no experiment,no observation,without observation,no inference,without inference control conclusion(theory or law)cant be stated.one process leads to another,one step mistook may be the…

— Adewale Ajibola

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

— Albert Einstein

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may…

— Richard P. Feynman

In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge,…

— William Whewell

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the…

— Albert Einstein

“The practice of good science requires that when we observe something that doesn’t fit a hypothesis, these observations need to be reckoned with somehow.”

— Nina Teicholz

“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

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

— Claude Bernard