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A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design
Verner Panton
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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.
Ronald Fisher
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If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
Andy Garcia
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An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.
Enrico Fermi
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Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
Werner Heisenberg
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
Thomas A. Edison
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Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.
Raimon Panikkar
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By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
W. G. Sebald
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Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.
Nhat Hanh
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Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments
Manly Hall
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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?
Dorothy Hodgkin
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We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
W. G. Sebald
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Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.
George A. Sheehan
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
Orson Welles
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When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.
Anthony Romero
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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
Jeff Bezos
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The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.
Ronald Fisher
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Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
Charles Ives
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No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
William Beveridge
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What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.
Ernst Mach
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There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
Jose Mujica
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Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.
Charles Ives
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Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.
Timothy Leary
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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.
Ronald Fisher
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais Nin
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Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.
Squarepusher
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
Max Planck
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Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.
Ralph Steadman
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We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.
Atul Gawande
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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.
Albert Claude
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The show, like everything we have done and still do, is just one more experiment.
Thomas Bangalter
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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.
Claude Bernard
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You've got to experiment to figure out what works.
Andrew Weil
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A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
Erasmus Darwin
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The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.
Wolfgang Sachs
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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.
Seth Lloyd
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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
Imre Lakatos
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
F. Murray Abraham