Blindfolded Quote by Louis Pasteur

It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of…

— Bertrand Russell

It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but…

— Henri Poincare

If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to…

— Thomas Malthus

“To what extent are we the authors, the creators of our own experiences? How much are these predetermined by the brains or senses we…

— Oliver Sacks

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

— Joni Mitchell

I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

— Melissa Febos

It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as…

— Paul Auster

It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a…

— Claude Bernard

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

Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in…

— Francis Galton

WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment

— James Patterson

I was afraid that by observingobjects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses Imight blind my soul…

— Socrates