An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
‘The Meaning and Limits of Exact Science’, Science (30 Sep 1949), 110, No. 2857, 325.
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
You look at science as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science … gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment