Quotes About Experimentation

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Knowledge is the death of research.

Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

I didn't think; I experimented.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.

Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.