Quotes About Experimentation

Scientists are aware that all the lab-rat tests in the world, once compiled, can tell us only how lab rats act when tested, and that is how we must begin to view school: all that you can learn in a school classroom is what goes on inside a school classroom.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

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I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

Progressive rock was happening.

When you limit the word 'jazz' to one period of history, for the people who love that period, then maybe it can be dead because nobody plays like that anymore. But jazz is progressive music; it always has to progress, and musicians always have to find new landscapes and new ways to speak out, so of course it's always changing.

I always leaned toward free jazz... experimental jazz and progressive jazz. I feel like jazz is just part of the flavor and palette that you have as a musician to experiment with.

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

The Momofuku Culinary Lab started as a space where we could focus on creating and innovating. I didn't want us to worry about working on projects in a restaurant; there are just too many distractions in service and running a kitchen to be able to focus on creating your dishes.

I like playing in other projects.

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

Wherever technology's going, we're cool with it. We're definitely promoters of kids trying out new stuff.

But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.

I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

I realized that the way most people were going about protein engineering was doomed failure.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.