Quotes About Experimentation

Our real discoveries come from chaos. From going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

Think about the animals used in product testing. Think about the monkeys shot into space. Without their death, their pain, without their sacrifice, we would have nothing.

Todos los descubrimientos verdaderos surgen del caos, son resultado de dirigirse hacia lo que parece incorrecto y ridículo y tonto.

The three ways to make napalm: One, you can mix equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate. Two, you can mix equal parts of gasoline and diet cola. Three, you can dissolve crumbled cat litter in gasoline until the mixture is thick.

Getting something wrong doesn't mean you have failed. Instead, you have just learned what does not work. You now know to try something else.

Strategy almost always emerges from a combination of deliberate and unanticipated opportunities. What's important is to get out there and try stuff until you learn where your talents, interests, and priorities begin to pay off.

Innovators were simply much more likely to question, observe, network, and experiment compared to typical executives. We published the results of our research in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Discovery-driven planning

important is to get out there and try stuff until you learn where your talents, interests, and priorities begin to pay off. When you find out what really works for you, then it's time to flip from an emergent strategy to a deliberate one.

Strategy almost always emerges from a combination of deliberate and unanticipated opportunities. What's important is to get out there and try stuff until you learn where your talents, interests, and priorities begin to pay off. When you find out what really works for you, then it's time to flip from an emergent strategy to a deliberate one.

The world, Left Coasters insisted, can be easily and frequently reinvented.

the children make of it what they can. What they don't understand today, they might tomorrow. "The Declaration is like a map. You trust that it's right, but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.

I make it a rule to try everything, she said. Don't you think it would be very annoying if you tasted ginger for the first time on your deathbed, and found you never liked anything so much? I should be so exceedingly annoyed that I think I should get well on that account alone.

and let there be new forms and stranger

What is the dirty little secret of innovation? It's simply this: most innovations fail.

Trial and error is Creativity's way of prolonging the fun.

Trying new things constantly and then abandoning them without further study or work is not iterating. That's flailing.

For Mia, however, the photographs were only a vague approximation of what she wanted to express, and she soon found herself not only altering the prints – with everything from ballpoint pen to splashes of laundry detergent – but experimenting with the camera itself, bending its limited range to her desires.

she was trying on new skins, like all teenagers do,

Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Those who favor a "grand plan" over experimentation fail to understand the role that failed experiments play in creating progress in society. Failures quickly and efficiently signal what doesn't work, minimizing waste and redirecting scarce resources to what does work. A market economy is an experimental discovery process, in which business failures are inevitable and any attempt to eliminate them only ensures even greater failures.

The point is that progress—whether in business, an economy, or science—comes through experimentation and failure

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.