Quotes About Experimentation

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

One need not fear for the future of music.

[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.

Make a sketch, construct a model, or assemble a prototype. Then another. And another. With each attempt, you'll reveal new possibilities for innovation. Your mind will talk to your hands, and your hands will talk to your mind. This dialogue is called generative thinking, and it happens only when you're making something. It's the active ingredient of design.

Often the most resource-ful person is the one who has tried the most approaches, taken the most risks, failed the most times.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

It's the only thing that's never been tried.

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline, too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse.

Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.

I am pro anything that works and I know pills do work for a lot of people. There may well come a time in the future where I take pills again. For now, I do what I know keeps me just about level. Exercise definitely helps me, as does yoga and absorbing myself in something or someone I love, so I keep doing these things. I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.

But you also have to know what you like. What to type in the metaphorical search box. And sometimes you have to try a few things before that becomes clear.

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

He looked about the workroom, his eyes falling upon my integrator. "What manner of beast is that?" he said. "An unmannerly kind," I said. He extended a hand toward its head. "Does it bite?" "I don't know, but in a moment we may find out.

Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.

What Keyes was describing was the textbook progression, from childhood, of a sadist and a psychopath. Torturing and killing small animals, pets especially, is experimentation in controlling and killing another living thing for pure pleasure. It is practice, the last step before graduating to humans. Even as an adult,