"The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions……" — Georges Cuvier
"The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself."
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23 Quotes by Georges Cuvier
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It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By…
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At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of…
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Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
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It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are…
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In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The…
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The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the…
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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is…
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It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet…
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Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive…
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It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these…
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and…
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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the…
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More Experimenter Quotes
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I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think…
— Unknown Author
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Nature is an experimenter.
— Philip Jose Farmer
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Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
— Isaac Asimov
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To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master…
— Claude Bernard
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Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned…
— Ernst Mach
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Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a…
— Alfred Binet
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The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also…
— Claude Bernard
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Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is…
— William Shockley
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No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready…
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
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I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.
— Corbin Bernsen
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Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The modern marketer is: an experimenter, a lover of data, a content creator, a justifier of ROI.
— Unknown Author
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