Quotes About Experiment

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

Our garage was basically science fair central.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

Science is uncertain.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.