Quotes About Experimentation

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Effective students and creative innovators regularly strive to uncover the unintended consequences of a lesson learned or a new idea.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

The things you did with that cucumber in college does not make you a vegetarian.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

A ciência, meu rapaz, é construída com erros, mas são erros úteis, porque levam, pouco a pouco, até à verdade.

Somewhere in these streets, plastic was invented. X-rays were discovered, continental drift was identified. What marvels does science cultivate here now?

A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

When I was starting out, I was just bringing a garbage bag of jokes onstage, pulling them out like, 'What about this? No? Alright.' I was just trying to be funny about anything.

The intention behind 'Prone!' was to make a punk song with no instruments.

When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we tried to break all the boundaries between musical genres.

It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

We are exploring creative models to pursue innovation outside the confines of our normal process, taking calculated risks and learning from them.

Amuse-bouches are an opportunity to push boundaries.

I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

Being associated with songs that push boundaries is amazing. If the rest of my career consists of a majority of songs that are experimental, I'll be a happy man.