Quotes About Experimentation

They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza.

They had not done the wild things that had no basis in their understanding of the workings of the body. They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

Play is the highest form of research.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

Do it, fix it, try it.

I did not think; I experimented.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.