Approach Quote by Francis Crick

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried…

— Margaret Mead

Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and…

— Gaston Bachelard

“Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.”

— John Brockman

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

— Melvin Calvin

It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say…

— Steven Weinberg

The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept…

— Frederick Seitz

Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some…

— Hilary Kornblith

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

— Arthur Eddington

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the…

— Roger Bacon

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.

— Richard P. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Claude Bernard