...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)
Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment ... Sometimes it is one foot that is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both - by theorizing and then testing, or by finding new relations in the process of experimenting and then bringing the theoretical foot up and pushing it on beyond, and so on in unending alterations.
Robert Andrews Millikan (1868 - 1953)
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new: it alone can give us certainty.
Jules Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green (1935 - )
The statistician who supposes that his main contribution to the planning of an experiment will involve statistical theory, finds repeatedly that he makes his most valuable contribution simply by persuading the investigator to explain why he wishes to do the experiment, by persuading him to justify the experimental treatments, and to explain why it is that the experiment, when completed, will assist him in his research.
Gertrude Cox (1900 - 1978)
Care must be taken in planning experiments so that the differences to be examined for significance should be those which furnish an answer to the question which we are asking.
William Sealy Gosset (1876 - 1937)
My life is an experiment I never had a chance to properly design.
Diana Ballard
I am addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter.
Steven Wright (1955 - )
A theory can be proved by an experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)