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The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation. -- Roger Bacon
Experimental science is the queen of knowledge. -- Roger Bacon
Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong. -- Brian Greene
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. -- Enrico Fermi
Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems. -- Wilhelm Wundt
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge. -- Ronald Fisher
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Of course, the other thing about evolution is that anything can be said because very little can be disproved. Experimental evidence is minimal. -- Bryan Appleyard
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken. -- Humphry Davy
[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to PoincarÃ©:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact. -- Gabriel Lippmann
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation." -- Roger Bacon
Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance. -- John Tilbury
Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated. -- Jerome Isaac Friedman
Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated." -- Jerome Isaac Friedman
Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals. -- David Galenson
Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line. -- John William Draper
Experimental film by the '70s had become much more mainstream after 'Bonnie and Clyde' and stuff in the late '60s, when you were seeing bigger movies where people were exploring the medium a lot more. -- Noah Hawley
Experimental evidence has now verified that nuclear reactions can be caused to occur in heavily loaded solids. It is premature to predict where this is headed from an applications point of view, but the basic science is clearly revolutionary. -- George H. Miley
The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT. -- Walt Disney
For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do. -- Francis Bacon
Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena [sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature. -- Ian Hacking
A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on the other hand, are messy, inexact things, which are believed by everyone except the man who did that work. -- Harlow Shapley
Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other. -- Theodore William Richards
The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics. -- James Clerk Maxwell
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved. -- Martin Filler
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved." -- Martin Filler
All progress is experimental. -- John Jay Chapman
I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity. -- Christina Aguilera
You can't make experimental work by copying past work. -- Trey Parker
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. -- Edmund White
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. -- Murray Gell-Mann
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds. -- Ennio Morricone
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible. -- Peter D. Mitchell
You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental. -- Richard Branson
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. -- Seamus Heaney
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked. -- Abdus Salam
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century. -- David Chalmers
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme. -- Edward Lawrie Tatum
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections. -- Paul Nurse
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. -- Wilhelm Wundt
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place. -- Donald Davis
The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines. -- Orville Wright
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. -- Claude Bernard
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. -- Ivan Pavlov
Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested. -- Richard Branson
When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease. -- Evgeny Morozov
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. -- William S. Burroughs
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. -- Steve Jobs
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing. -- Annie Baker
All progress is experimental." -- John Jay Chapman
I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping." -- Jane Austen
My tendency is to be very experimental." -- Sean Lennon
I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity." -- Christina Aguilera
I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now." -- Sarah Zettel
This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements." -- Walther Bothe
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique." -- Edmund White
Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science." -- James Bridie
Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living" -- John Cage
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films." -- Richard Linklater
We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way." -- Mike Lowry
Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?" -- Fred Frith
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?" -- Marguerite Young
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays." -- Rainn Wilson
Quentin's conversations with his parents were so circular and self-defeating, they sounded like experimental theater." -- Lev Grossman
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results." -- Murray Gell Mann
Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!" -- Rudolph A. Marcus
In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen." -- Marguerite Moreau
I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison." -- James Cronin
His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain." -- Jane Austen
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing." -- Harvey Pekar
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds." -- Ennio Morricone
At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation." -- Walter Rudolf Hess
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!" -- Alan Bradley
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible." -- Peter D. Mitchell
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions." -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests." -- David Deutsch
You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental." -- Richard Branson
You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me." -- Dave Lombardo
They taught using an Italian system of experimental education in which the students did whatever the fuck we wanted." -- Isabel Allende
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors." -- Bill Forsyth
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor." -- Lynn Shelton
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one." -- Sxip Shirey
The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental." -- Kenichi Fukui
The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?" -- Nicholas Stern
Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on." -- Richie Norton
Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them." -- David Deutsch
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill." -- Albert Einstein
I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films." -- Eric Darnell
Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system." -- Alex Tabarrok
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology." -- Oswald Spengler
This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted." -- Martin Lewis Perl
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California." -- John Moody
I believe in making movies very inexpensively; I think that way too much money is spent on making movies. Enough movies are being made, but not enough experimental ones." -- Dax Shepard
Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred percent guaranteed not to work." -- Lawrence Joseph
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible." -- Yuan T. Lee
Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you." -- Charles Manning Child
So you see, you have nothing to be afraid of."Oh no, thought Otto, just squads of hired goons wandering around with experimental energy weapons. Nothing to be afraid of at all." -- Mark Walden
I arched my back and flexed my hips experimentally...once...twice...a third time. It really was true what they said about riding a bike. My body remembered this just as quickly." -- Alice Clayton
Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing." -- John Ashbery
In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories." -- Robert Huber
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked." -- Abdus Salam
New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement." -- Mary C. Jones
It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally." -- Derek Harold Richard Barton
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme." -- Edward Lawrie Tatum
In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds." -- Albert Einstein
Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements." -- Rudolf Carnap
One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty." -- Robert B. Laughlin
At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE)." -- Simon van der Meer
I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced." -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects." -- Wilhelm Wundt
In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants." -- Aaron Klug
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. It's got interpretations of a lot of different genres, too, a lot of dubby-ness and experimental stuff." -- King Krule
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom." -- Johannes Stark
The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired." -- Wilhelm Ostwald
The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines." -- Orville Wright
Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.I'd finally found something Eric did poorly." -- Charlaine Harris
Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do." -- Toby Stephens
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely." -- Wilhelm Ostwald

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