Keyword: Experiments

Never try to replicate a successful experiment.

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

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

No experiment is reproducible.

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

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

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

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

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.

If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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