Martin Lewis Perl: Experimentation

Martin Lewis Perl was American scientist. Explore interesting quotes on experimentation.
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“The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.”

Martin Lewis Perl

in his Nobel Autobiography, edited by [Gösta Ekspong, Nobel Lectures in Physics 1991-1995, World Scientific, 1997, 9810226780, 161]

World , Nature , Change

“It is always a good plan for a speculative experimenter to have two experiments going, or at least one going and one being built.”

Martin Lewis Perl

Nobel Lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1995/perl-lecture.html, Martin L. Perl, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995
Nobel prize lecture

“Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.”

Martin Lewis Perl

Nobel prize lecture

Art , Science , Parting