Quotes About Experimentation

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.

As a kid, I remember my mother always experimenting with bizarre combinations of food such as gulab jamun and pickle! Surprisingly, many years down the line, I have adapted the same.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?

How do they find out with the experiments?' '...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.' 'But isn't that unkind to the animal?' 'Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of overt trial and error.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly our options widen.

What do I need to know?" "What do I need to try?" "What do I need to accept?" "What do I need to do?

And the great lesson embedded in the book is that no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook—try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

Tossing the chalk thoughtfully for a moment, I decided what to do. I wrote 'The cat sat on the mat' once in copperplate English, then translated into Latin, then French and finally, for good measure, in Italian.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

Maybe I should try singing like a man.

A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Creativity is your best makeup skill, don't be afraid to experiment.