Experiments Quotes

• To get a better sense for these findings, we talked to UC Riverside’s Amnon Rapoport, who has been running optimal stopping experiments in the laboratory for more than forty years...

  

  Brian Christian
  • Experiments
  • Laboratory
  • UC Riverside’s Amnon Rapoport

• To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.

  

  Moby
  • Different
  • Creative
  • Experiments

• The test of all knowledge is experiment.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Experiments
  • Tests

• If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked -to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Should
  • Results
  • Causes

• We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Mind
  • Reading
  • Experiments

• I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Ignorance
  • Brushes

• How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Art
  • Joy
  • Risk

• Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Poetry
  • Criticism
  • Novels

• What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Able

• Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment with life.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Body
  • Cancer
  • Healthy

• Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Reason
  • Observation
  • Method

• After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

  

  Simon van der Meer
  • Theory
  • Experiments
  • Pursue

• There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Imagine
  • Theoretical
  • Physicist

• The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Values
  • Failing
  • Experimentation

• What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. ... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Philosophy
  • Math

• Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments which follow a three-step process: Build, measure, learn. A startup is … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Business
  • Learn
  • Startup

• Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Experiments
  • Uncertain

• The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Ideas
  • Principles
  • Fundamentals

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