All Quotes
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What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
Why think? Why not try the experiment?John Hunter
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.Claude Bernard
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.Lord Chesterfield
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
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.Edward Teller
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)Mark Twain
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge.J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"