You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.