The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much. . . to forget it
The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
Fashion is a reflection of your personality, so have fun and experiment.
When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.
Using virtual world, a scientist in Japan can conduct an experiment using a special facility in California, watching the entire thing via a live stream - and possibly controlling the experimental equipment remotely. We can use that same kind of technology to control a robot on Mars.
Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725). . . the circumstance that photography was not invented earlier remains the greatest mystery in its history. . . It had apparently never occurred to any of the multitude of artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who were in the habit of using the camera obscura to try to fix its image permanently.
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. It is always a good plan for a speculative experimenter to have two experiments going, or at least one going and one being built.
I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.
The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.
If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
[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.
I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.