Quotes About Experimentation

Siamo chimici, cioè cacciatori

I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin

Learning requires inefficiency.

At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived—it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.

What do you not have to do in order to produce a new sound?

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

I discarded jars of dried snails; OIL OF EARTHWORMS—which appeared to be exactly that; VINUM MILLEPEDATUM—millipedes, these crushed to pieces and soaked in wine; POWDER OF EYGYPTIANE MUMMIE—an indeterminate-looking dust, whose origin I thought more likely a silty streambank than a pharaoh's tomb; PIGEONS BLOOD, ant eggs, a number of dried toads painstakingly packed in moss, and HUMAN SKULL, POWDERED. Whose? I wondered.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

I certainly will explore all avenues. K-1, boxing, all of them.

I've never done drag, but I'd love to try it.

I feel like everyone should dye their hair a weird color. If you hate it, you can just dye it back.

I keep trying to make different records each time.

When I get a role similar to the ones I have played earlier, I try to do something different with the part.

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

On 'Edge of Tomorrow,' we discovered that movie while we were making it.

Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.

I like to take people out of their element.

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.

When the first episode of 'Mythbusters' aired in 2003, I couldn't drive a car. I couldn't see a R-rated movie. I was 14 years old, and I couldn't do much of anything. But 'Mythbusters' taught me that I could do science.