"If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment."

— Ernest Rutherford

"Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once."

— Eva Gabor

"You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time."

— Steven Wright

"IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices."

— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

— Werner von Braun

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."

— Niels Bohr

"A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats."

— Anonymous

"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had."

— Eric Schmidt

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

— R. Buckminster Fuller

"There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment."

— P. D. James

"The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize."

— Frederic Joliot-Curie

"I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks"."

— C. S. Lewis

"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."

— Henrik Ibsen

"Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'"

— Dave Parnas

"When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it and didn't inhale and never tried it again."

— Gov. Bill Clinton

Major Clark: So, what did you think of the future?
David Herdeg: Television was great.
Major Clark: You didn't see enough of it.

— From The Philadelphia Experiment (movie, 1984)