Action Quote by Philip Kitcher

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

— Richard P. Feynman

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

— Nate Silver

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

— Haresh Sippy

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

— Scott Berkun

It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is,…

— Peter Medawar

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable,…

— Hilary Kornblith

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

— Simon Sinek

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

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

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

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

— William Kamkwamba