Quotes About Experiment

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

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

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

Let the experiment be made.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.