Quotes on Experiments

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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.

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.

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

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.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

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

There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal... [even if] the animal were a human being.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

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

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.