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  • Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

    Science   Reality   Facts  
    1651 Leviathan, pt.1, ch.5.
  • With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.

    Real   Science   Men  
    Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers
  • Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

    Data   Principles   Facts  
    Michael Faraday (1842). “Chemical Manipulation: Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry on the Methods of Performing Experiments of Demonstration Or Research, with Accuracy and Success”, p.1
  • Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known, not merely by inanimate things, but also by living organisms, in their minutest parts, as single individuals, and also as whole communities. It results from this that, however complicated a series of phenomena may be and however many other sciences may enter into its complete presentation, the purely physical aspect, or the application of the known laws of matter and energy, can always be legitimately separated from the other aspects.

    Science   Law   Community  
  • Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

  • Science does not know its debt to imagination.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press
  • Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

  • An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting.

    Butterfly   Unique   Long  
  • Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method.... I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.

    Ian Hacking (1983). “Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science”, p.135, Cambridge University Press
  • Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter to the market system, to land speculation, to the whole cultural attitude of regarding the Earth as commodity rather than community. It is a soft-souled science.

    Running   Attitude   Land  
  • Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

    Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
  • A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

    Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)
  • Experimental science is the queen of knowledge.

  • My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.

    Science   Men   Ideas  
  • The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.

    Edmund Burke (1811). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.80
  • Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

    Apples   Firsts   Steps  
  • I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

    Mean   Cells   Hands  
    Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
  • [I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success.

    Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”
  • Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

    Fall   Mind   Unbiased  
    Michael Faraday's letter to John Tyndall (April 19, 1851) as quoted in "The correspondence of Michael Faraday", Volume 4, edited by Frank A. J. L. James, 1999.
  • There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can occur but once in their detailed glory. And for those kinds of sciences, be it cosmology, or evolutionary biology, or geology, or palaeontology, the experimental methods, simplification, quantification, prediction and repetition of the experimental sciences don't always work. You have to go with the narrative, the descriptive methods of what? Of historians.

    Events   Narrative   Kind  
    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

  • All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

    "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.
  • If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science, which it certainly isn't today. The possible insights into our own past and nature and origins would be dazzling. For another, we would be facing the deep paradoxes of interfering with the scheme of causality that has led to our own time and ourselves. I have no idea whether it's possible, but it's certainly worth exploring.

    Past   Ideas   Mind  
  • As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

    Science   Errors   Long  
  • In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.

    Science   Long   Progress  
    François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.265
  • The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

    Queens   Science   Long  
  • Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

    The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, Ch. 11
  • Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

  • I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

    Sorry   Apology   Science  
  • What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

    Physics and Philosophy (1958)
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