Cannot Quote by Isaac Newton

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 overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

— David Deutsch

“The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements that presuppose…

— Alan F. Chalmers

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

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

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

— Carl Sagan

Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.

— Louis Pasteur

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary…

— Isaac Newton

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to…

— Angus Deaton

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

— Paul Dickson

In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental…

— Karl Popper

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

— Albert Einstein