Experiment Quotes

The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the principles of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.

If I try to put a hit out everytime it’s not fun. Experiment for the future

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.

What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.

The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

I’m experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it’s appropriate I do it on the record.