Failure Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible to detach…

— Jeanette Winterson

“It will reward enough for me if, by the publication of the present experiment, I have directed the attention of investigators to this subject,…

— Joseph Von Fraunhofer

“What's so wonderful about experiments is that often they don't work. They do blow up in the oven; the Bride of Frankenstein does crawl…

— Susie Bright

“Had they both become unwilling participants in some sort of mad scientist’s chemistry experiment to combine Man A with Woman B to see how…

— Bella Andre

“‎your first thought would send the power of Quantum physics into a hive of activity. your first thought, would inevitably become the destiny of…

— Andre Jordan

“It is interesting to note that the quantum-mechanical revolution was made by a virtually orphaned generation of scientists. Many members of the generation above…

— Lee Smolin

“In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which divides our knowledge of the…

— J.W. Dunne

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought.”

— Claude Bernard

“Failures are inevitable when you experiment, but it is a trial-and-error process that gives results.”

— Haresh Sippy

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.”

— Adam M. Grant

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which…

— Banesh Hoffmann