Experiment Quotes

"There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."

Enrico Fermi

"An experiment is a question which science poses to nature, and a measurement is the recording of nature's answer."

Max Planck

"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."

Ernest Rutherford

"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science."

Claude Bernard

“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."