Experiments Quote by Pierre Duhem

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

— William Beveridge

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

— Auguste Comte

[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should be noted…

— Ronald Fisher

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish…

— Isaac Newton

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

— Jose Padilha

There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.

— Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville

... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he…

— Ronald Fisher

A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings,…

— Harlow Shapley

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

— Claude Bernard

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

— Nick Matzke

“Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypothesis. But man, because he has only one life to live,…

— Milan Kundera

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

— Heinz Pagels