Experiments Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the…

— Henry David Thoreau

First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them…

— Augustin-Louis Cauchy

The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I…

— Wolfgang Pauli

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the…

— Henry David Thoreau

During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before.…

— Augustus De Morgan

“Our experience teaches us that there are indeed laws of nature, regularities in the way things behave, and that these laws are best expressed…

— Brian Cox

Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

— Vilfredo Pareto

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's…

— Geoffrey West

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not…

— William James

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

— Emile Durkheim

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance…

— Vann Chow