Quotes About Experimentation

To make a discovery, to invent something that connects with the public, to fashion a work of art that is meaningful, inevitably requires time and effort. This often entails years of experimentation, various setbacks and failures, and the need to maintain a high level of focus. You must have patience and faith that what you are doing will yield something important.

Ideas are things to play with.

These steps are: Deep Observation (The Passive Mode), Skills Acquisition (The Practice Mode), and Experimentation (The Active Mode).

Spy a striking new tack to take with a problem? Don't worry about elaborate scientific controls for now: Just get hysterical and do it

He would drill holes into the skulls of his living victims, then inject hydrochloric acid or boiling water into the frontal lobe area of their brains. When these experiments failed to achieve the desired result, Dahmer simply dispatched the unfortunate victim

Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his administration's programs, "We'll just try them…and if they don't work…why then we'll just try something else.

When criticized for making 1,014 mistakes before creating the electric light bulb, Thomas Edison said, "I did not fail 1,014 times. I successfully found out what did not work 1,014 times." In other words, the reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.

At a meeting in a formal, hierarchical setting, a powerful player can get away with killing a good idea. But informality encourages people to test their thinking, to experiment, and to cross-check.

by trying lots of things you think you might enjoy, you will learn more about yourself, and what you are actually good at, what might be your core competencies, and which of the biggies are worth going for. You may be shocked by what you discover. This is why you just have to keep an open mind and try things.

He was too perfect, so I had to poke at it. Our relationship worked too well, so I had to see if I could break it. Not really break it, but see how far it would bend. I had to test it, because what good was something that couldn't be tested?

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.