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"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental." »Leopold Stein
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"The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly." »John F. Kennedy
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"A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats." »Anonymous
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"Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored." »Sir Ronald A. Fisher
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein
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"If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." »David Hume
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