Experimental Quotes

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. View quote
David Deutsch
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds. View quote
Ennio Morricone
Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline. View quote
Maurice Allais
A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence. View quote
Steven Weinberg
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism. View quote
Julian Assange
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art. View quote
Carlo Ponti
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. View quote
Wilhelm Ostwald
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. View quote
Wilhelm Ostwald
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)
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. View quote
Peter Debye
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. View quote
Martin Lewis Perl
Open platforms and experimental amateurs ... eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. ... Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether. View quote
Cory Doctorow
If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers. View quote
Edward Condon
Youth is wholly experimental. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
[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. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose. View quote
François Arago
You should look at all the experimental information at hand, not only the most relevant, and be prepared to make conjectures if that helps. View quote
Hans Bethe
It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed in the conducting of experiments, which cannot well be described in words, but which it is needless to describe, since practice will necessarily suggest them; though, like all other arts in which the hands and fingers are made use of, it is only much practice that can enable a person to go through complex experiments, of this or any kind, with ease and readiness. View quote
Joseph Priestley
The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the "experimental” production of markedly different solutions in identical environments. (Stephen Jay Gould)
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ... View quote
Jane Addams
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. View quote
Philip Warren Anderson
The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo, even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous... View quote
Sri Aurobindo
As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores. View quote
Steven Pinker