Armchairs Quote by Hilary Kornblith

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey…

— Lisa Randall

An experimental idea doesn't have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are together. That's…

— Sophie

One of the reasons I'm not so keen on people calling me an "experimental" writer is that it suggests the work is about the…

— Steve Erickson

“Odd thing it is—the word ‘experiment’ is unpopular, but not the word ‘experimental.”

— C.S. Lewis

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

— Max Planck

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in…

— Richard Ernst

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

— Charles Fort

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

— Henry David Thoreau

People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and…

— Francis Crick