Experimental Science Quotes

• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck

  Death, Truth, Growing Up

  Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

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• Experimental science is the queen of knowledge.

  Roger Bacon

  Queens, Science

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• What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Perception, Quantum Physics

  Physics and Philosophy (1958)

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  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

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• The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

  Roger Bacon

  Queens, Science, Long

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• In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Pride, Reality

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, Definitions, Firsts

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

  John Tukey

  Answers, Statistics, Made

  Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Mar. 1962

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• Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

  George Santayana

  Science, Common Sense, Perception

  The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, Ch. 11

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• Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Science, Reality, Facts

  1651 Leviathan, pt.1, ch.5.

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• Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Tests, Fraternity, Destruction

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• I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Sorry, Apology, Science

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• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Imagination, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known, not merely by inanimate things, but also by living organisms, in their minutest parts, as single individuals, and also as whole communities. It results from this that, however complicated a series of phenomena may be and however many other sciences may enter into its complete presentation, the purely physical aspect, or the application of the known laws of matter and energy, can always be legitimately separated from the other aspects.

  Frederick Soddy

  Science, Law, Community

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• Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

  Michael Faraday

  Data, Principles, Facts

  Michael Faraday (1842). “Chemical Manipulation: Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry on the Methods of Performing Experiments of Demonstration Or Research, with Accuracy and Success”, p.1

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• As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Errors, Long

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• Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

  Michael Faraday

  Fall, Mind, Unbiased

  Michael Faraday's letter to John Tyndall (April 19, 1851) as quoted in "The correspondence of Michael Faraday", Volume 4, edited by Frank A. J. L. James, 1999.

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• Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

  Clifford Geertz

  Believe, Hero, Animal

  Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.5, Basic Books

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• Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

  Humphry Davy

  Agents, Danger, Mistaken

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• Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

  James Bridie

  Apples, Firsts, Steps

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• Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter to the market system, to land speculation, to the whole cultural attitude of regarding the Earth as commodity rather than community. It is a soft-souled science.

  Stephanie Mills

  Running, Attitude, Land

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• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mean, Cells, Hands

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  People, Want, Fascinating

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do mean males in white coats who spin dials and wait for numbers to appear.

  Richard Lewontin

  Mean, Men, White

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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