Experiments Quote by Ronald Fisher

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment

— Ernest Rutherford

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

— Philip Kitcher

Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are…

— Edmund Pellegrino

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

— Max Planck

Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“...in microphysics the observer interferes with the experiment in a way that can't be measured and that therefore can't be eliminated. No natural laws…

— M.-L. von Franz

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

— Ernest Rutherford

One scientist will interpret data one way, another in another way. One scientist may feel that an experiment is valid, another feels it's invalid.…

— Simon Singh

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

— Nate Silver

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

— Aristotle

“With each step in the process, we used the method of science: Observe. Hypothesize. Predict. Experiment. Compare what you expected with what really happened.”

— Bill Nye