Experiments Quotes

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

Consider everything an experiment.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

Regard everything as an experiment.

Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.

We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors.

Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.

The show, like everything we have done and still do, is just one more experiment.

The test of all knowledge is experiment.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.