Quotes About Experimentation

in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking in the same place twice.

Scranton showed that we have been building and using jet engines in a completely trial-and-error experiential manner, without anyone truly understanding the theory. Builders

Trial and error is freedom.

Trial and error means trying a lot.

The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less on top-down planning and focus on maximum tinkering and recognizing opportunities when they present themselves.

Relies on scientific papers, goes from books to practice

This world is full of new things to try. Not all of them will bring you joy, but those that don't will at least bring you education- as you'll learn to never do them again.

I don't want to go to the government, the Schwa says. Yeah, I said. They'd dissect him and put him in a formaldehyde fish tank in Area 51. Howie shook his head. Area 51 is for aliens, he says. They'd probably put him in Area 52.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor people left over to experiment upon.

What an extraordinary thing it is, Mr. Darwin seems to spend hours in cracking a horse-whip in his room, for I often hear the crack when I pass under his windows.

One mantra of Silicon Valley, the technological innovation capital of the world, is "fail faster to succeed sooner.

scientific research is a bottomless money pit. You can approximate Doing Science to standing on the Crack of Doom throwing banknotes down it by the double-handful, in the hope that if you choke the volcano with enough paper it will cough up the One Ring.

and go looking for a potted plant that appears hardy enough to survive being irrigated with the stuff.

In the context of novel writing, this means you should lower the bar from "best-seller" to "would not make someone vomit." Exuberant imperfection encourages you to write uncritically, to experiment, to break your time-honored rules of writing just to see what happens. In a first draft, nothing is permanent, and everything is fixable. So stay loose and flexible, and keep your expectations very, very low.

The first law of exuberant imperfection is essentially this: The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child)," Mau's maxim went. "Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

I enjoy looking good and love experimenting with my hair colour. I've just gone from blonde to brunette, and keep looking in the mirror and not recognising myself!

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

You can make a lot of mistakes with hair because it grows back.

I don't know about style mistakes.