86 Quotes About Experiments

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.

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.

We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors.

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.