The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.