Experiments Quotes - Page 3

• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.476, Princeton University Press

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• We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

  James Truslow Adams

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Flower, Men, Garden

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• The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

  Gregor Mendel

  Purpose, Determined, Plant

  William Bateson, Gregor Mendel (1902). “Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence”

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• In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Men

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

  Donald Cram

  Fog, Should Have, Ideas

  Donald J Cram, Jane M Cram (2007). “Container Molecules and Their Guests”, p.1, Royal Society of Chemistry

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• One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

  Rudy Rucker

  Nice, Rude, Fiction

  "Collected Essays". Book by Rudy Rucker, www.rudyrucker.com. April, 2012.

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• I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

  Carl Sandburg

  Writing, Style, Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.138, University of Illinois Press

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• I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

  Patrick Stewart

  Stars, Technology, Years

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• A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Path

  The Sunday Times 18 July 1976

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• Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Independent, Judging, Would Be

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• The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

  James Randi

  Animal, Decision, Problem

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• Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

  Eva Gabor

  Marriage, Interesting, Advice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

  Isaac Newton

  Numbers, Judging, Weight

  Sir Isaac Newton (1959). “Correspondence: 1676-1687”

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• It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavours when preparing foods.  That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Mean, Creating, Important

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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

  Struggle, Cells, Our Lives

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• We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

  John L. Phillips

  Jobs, Pigs, Space

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• Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

  William Ralph Inge

  Government, Democracy, Vote

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• It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Worthwhile, Plenty, Expensive

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• In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

  Wietse Venema

  Safety, Kind, Physics

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• The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

  H. G. Wells

  World Government, Order, Nwo

  H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

  Claude Bernard

  Believe, Science, Men

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt I, Ch. 2, Sect. VI

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• We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Nature, Science, Deception

  1789 Traiteele mentaire de la chimie ('Elements of Chemistr y', translated by Robert Kerr).

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• My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Jobs, Teaching, Writing

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• The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Life, Exercise, Class

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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