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Quotes About Experimentation

Virtual Self' combines a lot of unlike elements - trance, jungle, slowed-down breakbeats.
~ Porter Robinson
'Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).
~ John Singer Sargent
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
~ Louis C.K.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
~ Louis Pasteur
The first is that I firmly believe that much of the quality we call intelligence is quantitative: he who finds the correct solution to a problem has simply tried out more things that he who does not.
~ Unknown
I am the kid who played with matches. I used to steal them from the shelf above the refrigerator, take them into my parents' bathroom. Jean Naté Bath Splash ignites, did you know that? Spill it, strike, and you can set fire to the floor. It burns blue, and when the alcohol is gone, it stops.
~ Jodi Picoult
Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo . However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else.
~ Johannes Kepler
Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.
~ John Brockman
Creativity requires a willingness to look stupid.
~ John C. Maxwell
The future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it, and turn it inside out.
~ John C. Maxwell
Horace Walpole dijo que «las equivocaciones en la ciencia siempre anteceden a la verdad».
~ John C. Maxwell
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
~ John Cheever
When you're being creative there is no such thing as a mistake.
~ John Cleese
Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.
~ Arman
Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'
~ Alan Cooper
Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.
~ Paola Antonelli
There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.
~ Jonathan Ive
We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.
~ Jonathan Ive
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
~ Kary Mullis
My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
~ Paloma Faith
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
~ Dave Barry
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
~ Eric Hoffer
Evolution is a tinkerer.
~ Francois Jacob
It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.
~ Taboo