We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future
Men of learning began to set experiments aside. . . to form theories. . . and to substitute these in the place of experiments.
A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.
Il ne fallait jamais faire des expériences pour confirmer ses idées, mais simplement pour les contrôler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.
Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.
Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.
In politics experiments means revolutions.
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.
We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.
You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.
For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It's about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words - 'I might be wrong. '
Let the experiment be made.
But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.
Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it.