Thought Experiments

Famous quotes containing the words thought and/or experiments:

    “You preferred it to the usual thing:
    One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
    One average mind—with one thought less, each year.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.”
    —James Conant (1893–1978)