Quotes About Experiment

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology.

We're looking for quantum donuts, " said Mike.

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

Life for me is just a result of experiments being performed by far more developed creatures.

Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.

The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.

Most science is only high falutin' nature studies.

Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.

And these have been successfully tested. Well, tested, sure. They've been tested. Each time they're tested, we assemble what data we can, and the next generation of pods comes back just a bit more intact. Face & Luke

Almost all science is done by very normal people

Try before you trust.

I've always believed that it's possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it's critically important to do so, and that we put our entire democratic experiment in peril when we don't. It's a lesson I fear our nation is about to learn the hard way. That's

Lovers may kill their own love story for no other reason than that they are unable to tolerate the uncertainty, the sheer risk, that their experiment in happiness has delivered

In discovering that half of his biological heritage consisted of nothing more than an impersonal concoction of designer proteins, artificially leveraged by indifferent scientists to produce a zygote that when matured would, they hoped, display certain interesting mental abilities, he had felt something fundamental drain out of him. He had been nothing more than a test, an experiment, one among many.