Quotes About Experimentation

In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.

It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.

I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.

Putnam rejects the idea that there is a single "scientific method." But he also thinks that this is not what Dewey meant when he appeals to scientific method in solving ethical problems. Rather, Dewey is appealing to experimentation, imaginative construction of alternative hypotheses, open discussion, debate, and ongoing self-corrective communal criticism.

The best thing you can do with your ideas is to always be ready to abandon them.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

and massive numbers of assumptions are tested.

A stable organizational environment with transparent values is conducive to employees' feeling confident that they can take the risks that experimentation requires.

innovators and experimenters who are comfortable with ambiguity and prepared to learn.

With discovery-driven growth (DDG), you invest small amounts of money—money you can afford to lose—to get the information that you need so that you can invest more confidently.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

I recall the day you swiped one of my cigars, and how sick it made you. Your mother and I carefully avoided noticing that you couldn't eat dinner that night and I've never mentioned it to you until now—boys have to try such things and discover for themselves that men's vices are not for them.

a thousand reasoned opinions are never equal to one case of diving in and finding out.

I've learned a hell of a lot from [William S.] Burroughs. I think the best things in my books probably are inspired by Burroughs. I think about what Burroughs wrote and then I try to go one step further. And I may go one step back; I don't know.

Like most other experimenters he found only and always what he looked for.

Whatever works, that's my philosophy. I don't care if it's magic beans or a prayer cloth dipped in the Jordan River.

Just imagine for a day that you do not know anything, that what you believe could be completely false. Let go of your preconceptions and even your most cherished beliefs. Experiment. Force yourself to hold the opposite opinion or see the world through your enemy's eyes. Listen to the people around you with more attentiveness. See everything as a source for education—even the most banal encounters. Imagine that the world is still full of mystery.

We are the primitives of an unknown civilization

Experimentation had made it clear that large-scale collective quantum phenomena were happening in every brain; there existed in the brain both global quantum coherence, and quantum entanglement between the various electrical states of the microtubules; and this meant that all the counterintuitive phenomena and sheer paradox of quantum reality were an integral part of consciousness.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

humans increasingly came to believe that they could increase their capabilities by investing in scientific research.

reconhecer nossas capacidades, fazer experiências, testar até onde poderemos ir na busca de nosso melhor.