As real scientific students they should have Experimented with the figures with which they played.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
For his critical tests have reduced the pearl of price to ashes, and yet left it, in his judgment, a pearl; and he bids his followers gather up their faith as an almost perfect whole; go home and venerate the myth on which he has Experimented, adore the man whom he has proved to be one.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
When it had been demonstrated that a dog, a cat, or other animal, after having been saturated with snake-poison, did not recover after the administration of an alleged antidote, the illogical conclusion was drawn at once that it could not possibly be of any use to man, whilst, in reality, the only proof rendered by the experiment, if made properly, was that the respective antidote could not be relied on in treating animals of the class Experimented on.
"On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote"
A. Mueller