Quotes About Experimentation

The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.

They made figures of brass, and tried to induce souls to indwell them. In some accounts we read that they succeeded; Friar Bacon was credited with one such Homunculus; so was Albertus Magnus, and, I think, Paracelsus. He had, at least, a devil in his long sword 'which taught him all the cunning pranks of past and future mountebanks

Nonsense. Fools refuse to try something new.

perfected mass-brainwashing techniques early on after extensive experimentation on their populations.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

If you don't know what to measure, measure anyway. You'll learn what to measure.

Got something new , maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok .

At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.

SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Clemency marvelled, trying a purple eyeshadow shot with gold sparkly bits on the back of her hand

He was able to hear the world say "no" to him in the form of failed experiments;

Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and preplanning was often the result of "Let's just try a lot of stuff and keep what works.

Executives, project leaders, and development teams must embrace a different view of the new product development world, one that not only recognizes change in the business world, but also understands the power of driving down iteration costs to enable experimentation and emergent processes. Understanding these differences and how they affect product development is key to understanding APM.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

What was interesting was seeing how much of it could work, how much it really would maximize justice, and how it was going to fail. We could learn a lot from that.

Então eu acho que se deve experimentar, é uma burrice não experimentar. Quem não usa nada, nem secretamente, é um perigoso louco que possivelmente mataria alguém.

An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing sketchy pages, to have followed her advice rather too well.

How do you explain a zen parable, how explain a mind-bendingly unconventional but logistically correct view of 'reality' in a story? I just try everything I can think up and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.