Experimentation Quotes

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. (Claude Bernard)
The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation. View quote
Carroll Quigley
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. View quote
Albert Einstein
(Coining phrase "null hypothesis") In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis,” and it should be noted that the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation. Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis. View quote
Ronald Fisher
At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit. View quote
Mark Tobey
I am accused often of too much experimentation.... but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do. View quote
Mark Tobey
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. View quote
Denis Diderot
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way. View quote
Paul Theroux
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and, by cautious experimentation, to prove how it works? What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land? View quote
Aldo Leopold
I believe art is a wholly formal enterprise, encompassing almost all the tenets that the nineteenth century spoke of as l'art pour l'art, tenets which have made twentieth century's experimentation possible. (What postmodern doesn't?) View quote
Samuel R. Delany
New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation. (Tim Robbins)
I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940. View quote
Edmund Phelps
Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way. View quote
Donna Karan
Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well. View quote
Martin Gore
I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes. View quote
Bill Rodgers
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character. View quote
Hedi Slimane
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity. View quote
Jennifer Capriati
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. View quote
John Spencer
I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation. View quote
Matt Gonzalez
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did. (Paul Nitze)
Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space. View quote
Rob Bishop
I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things. View quote
Rob Walton
Gentlemen, the most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it. And the most important part of experimentation is not doing the experiment but making notes, ve-ry accurate quantitative notes - in ink. I am told that a great many clever people feel they can keep notes in their heads. I have often observed with pleasure that such persons do not have heads in which to keep their notes. This iss very good, because thus the world never sees their results and science is not encumbered with them. ~ Gottlieb, Ch. 4. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
I believe that the main lesson which our generation has learnt is that we must find a new limit for the activities of government, a limit which leaves ample scope for sensible experimentation but which secures the freedom of the individual as the mainspring of all social and political activity. The whole purpose of these lectures has been to suggest that we can find such a limit if we are willing to revive and develop the ancient ideal of the Rule of Law. View quote
Friedrich Hayek