Quotes About Experimentation

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.

He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.

I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

One of the things you dont always realize when youre younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

I've definitely learned more about myself through experimentation over the years - which products work best for my skin and tricks from various makeup artists I've been lucky enough to work with.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

All we know so far is what doesn't work.

I am constantly looking to push boundaries with materials, bring in new weights, and work in fabrics unexpectedly.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I think "MythBusters" is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.