Keyword: Experiments

If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Success

Under any given set of environmental conditions an experimental animal behaves as it damn well pleases.

Animals Murphy’s Laws

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, any experimental organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Murphy’s Laws

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor
Failure Problems

If the experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment.

Murphy’s Laws Success

No experiment is reproducible.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment.

Murphy’s Laws Things

That which we call sin in others is experimentation for us.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher
Beliefs Characteristics

No matter what the experiment’s result, there will always be someone eager to: (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c) believe it supports his own pet theory.

Murphy’s Laws

Never try to replicate a successful experiment.

Murphy’s Laws

No experiment is ever a complete failure – it can always serve as a negative example.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

The experiment may be considered a success if no more than 50% of the observed measurements must be discarded to obtain a correspondence with theory.

Murphy’s Laws

Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory tries to repeat it.

Murphy’s Laws

Those supplies necessary for yesterday's experiment must be ordered no later than tomorrow noon.

Murphy’s Laws