Experiments Quotes

• One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Effort
  • Progress

• 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

• It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Smart
  • Differences
  • Disagree

• 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

• 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
  • Physicist
  • Theoretical

• It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

  

  Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
  • History
  • Seek
  • Experiments

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

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Reason
  • Observation
  • Method

• 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

• 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
  • Term

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

  

  Moby
  • Different
  • Creative
  • Experiments

• 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

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

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Values
  • Failing
  • Experimentation

• The test of all knowledge is experiment.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Experiments
  • Tests

• 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

• 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

• 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

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