Failing Quote by Wilhelm Wundt

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

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

— Scott Berkun

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

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of…

— Maria Montessori

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

— William Blake

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

— Abraham Maslow

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

— Philip Kitcher

I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical…

— Alfred Binet

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult…

— Bertrand Russell

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

— Isaac Asimov

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

— Henri Poincare

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

— Rene Dubos