Quotes About Experiment

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

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

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

Science is practical philosophy.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.