Quotes of Experimentation - somelinesforyou

“ No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. ”

- Orson Welles

“ There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact… ”

- Denis Diderot

“ Our view… is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored. ”

- Sir Ronald A. Fisher

“ We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life. ”

- Johannes A. Gaertner
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