Thought Experiments

Famous quotes containing the words thought and/or experiments:

    “... Someone said—’Come’MI heard it as I bowed.”
    “I may have thought as much, but not aloud.”
    “Well, so I came.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
    Denis Diderot (1713–1784)