Developing Quote by Simon van der Meer

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in…

— Richard Ernst

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

— Brian Greene

About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close -…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

A rare theorist turned experimentalist.

— Willis Lamb

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

— Anonymous

During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved…

— Thomas A. Edison

“All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were for them…

— Victor J. Stenger

If, as is the custom, I speak mainly about my own researches, I must say that I was fortunate in finding that not everything…

— Wilhelm Wien

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

— Richard P. Feynman

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the…

— Robert B. Laughlin

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

— Ellen Ochoa

There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there…

— John Ashworth Ratcliffe