Quotes About Experimentation

But those who are incapable of pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men. A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces -- laying bare the nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling them out with forceps -- would not hesitate to try experiments with men and women for the gratification of his curiosity.

Ser joven es equivocarse; la juventud tiene que hablar y actuar irreflexivamente para que haya algún progreso

Me gustaba la definición de la locura que hizo Einstein: «Hacer las mismas cosas y esperar resultados diferentes».

I have often asked myself, "What would it look like if the characters in a movie were animatronic puppets created by aliens with an imperfect mastery of human behavior?" Now I know.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

that favored stability over innovation, predictability over experimentation

As someone called Anonymous once said, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

Thomas Edison is often said to have advised, "To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

you want to succeed, double your failure rate." I

No human investigation can be called real knowledge if it does not pass through mathematical demonstrations; and if you say that the kinds of knowledge that begin and end in the mind have any value as truth, this cannot be conceded, but rather must be denied for many reasons, and first of all because in such mental discussions there is no experimentation, without which nothing provides certainty of itself.

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

Meddling is what we do. It's what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That's the way of it.

Play is the highest form of research.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Si buscas resultados distintos, no hagas siempre lo mismo.

Locura es hacer la misma cosa una y otra vez esperando obtener diferentes resultados

There is nothing that is more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different

Se sapessimo (esattamente) quel che stiamo facendo, non si chiamerebbe ricerca.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Pilkington, at Mombasa, had produced individuals who were sexually mature at four and full grown at six and a half. A scientific triumph. But socially useless. Six-year-old men and women were too stupid to do even Epsilon work. And the process was an all-or-nothing one; either you failed to modify at all, or else you modified the whole way. They were still trying to find the ideal compromise between adults of twenty and adults of six. So far without success. Mr Foster sighed and shook his head.

Se prueba el pastel comiéndolo; no en el libro de cocina.