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“See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.” Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
“The truth may be puzzling or counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held beliefs. Experiment is how we get a handle on it.” Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
“They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor left over to experiment upon.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not...” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
“That a particular molecular motion does give rise to a state of consciousness is experimentally certain; but the how and why of the process are just as inexplicable as in the case of the communication of kinetic energy by impact.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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