#experiments

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#astray #completely #conjecture #contact #enterprise

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind. ↗

— Orville Wright

#case #crushing #experiences #experiments #gliding

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. ↗

— William Gilbert

#common #conjectures #demonstrated #discovery #experiments

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#come #describe #exhibit #experiments #explain

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. ↗

— Brad Holland

#experiments #figured #going #haven #how

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#inexcusable #journalists #make #politicians #scientists

During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#being #constantly #decisively #discuss #done

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#chemical #experiments #i #nature #processes

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments. ↗

— David Lynch

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