The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.
Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.
An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well.
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
The euro is a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better. ] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of Friction, attract the Electrical Fire, and therefore take it from the Thin rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the Friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received, to any Body that has less.
All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans. . . in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.
Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing.
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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.
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.