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Experimental science is the queen of knowledge. -- Roger Bacon
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on. -- Oliver Heaviside
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible. -- Peter D. Mitchell
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts. -- Michael Faraday
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose. -- Francois Arago
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
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds. -- Michael Faraday
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts. -- Louis Pasteur
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
An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting. -- Richard Lewontin
Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do mean males in white coats who spin dials and wait for numbers to appear. -- Richard Lewontin
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
I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences. -- Claude Bernard
My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves. -- Martin Lewis Perl
The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations. -- G. H. Hardy
The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate. -- Edmund Burke
Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. -- Clifford Geertz
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter to the market system, to land speculation, to the whole cultural attitude of regarding the Earth as commodity rather than community. It is a soft-souled science. -- Stephanie Mills
Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere. It is always a good plan for a speculative experimenter to have two experiments going, or at least one going and one being built. -- Martin Lewis Perl
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method.... I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own. -- Ian Hacking
Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science. -- James Bridie
Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science." -- James Bridie
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. -- Pierre Duhem
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
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
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
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
Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap. -- Vladimir Arnold
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
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
Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable. -- Walter Lang
My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance. -- Philip Warren Anderson

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