#experiments

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#experiments #fit #got #make #observations

When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays. ↗

— James Cronin

#decays #discovered #electronic #experiments #i

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#biologically #experiments #individuals #since #species

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#crew #crew members #experiments #farther #fine

I consider all my films experiments. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#experiments #films #i

These bizarre examples attempt to prove one conceptual point or another by deliberately reducing all but one underappreciated feature of some phenomenon to zero, so that what really counts can shine through. The twin earth example sets internal similarity to a maximum (you are whisked off to Twin Earth without being given a chance to register this huge shift) so that external context can be demonstrated to be responsible for whatever our intuition tells us. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#experience

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them. ↗

— Amar Bose

#angles #arriving #audience #back #boston

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.' ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#aggression #came #discussions #experiments #first

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#achievements #call #claim #experiments #failures

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#common #creative #diligent #exact #experiments