A statistician's wife had twins. He was delighted. He rang the minister who was also delighted. "Bring them to church on Sunday and we'll baptize them," said the minister. "No," replied the statistician. "Baptize one. We'll keep the other as a control."
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Theory is a good thing, but a good experiment is forever.
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (1894 - 1984)
If the experiments be quite simple the question may be without great importance; but when their requirements as to time or expenditure come into account the problem arises, how the observations should be chosen in order that a limited number of them may give the maximum amount of knowledge.
Kirstine Smith (1878 - 1939)
You can't fix by analysis what you bungled by design.
Richard Light, Judith Singer, and John Willett
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
...no good statistician existed unless he, or she, had been so involved in practical experimentation that they appreciated and understood the problems of the experimenter, the process worker, the farmer and the laboratory assistant.
Stella V. Cunliffe (1917 - 2012)
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake (1757 - 1827)