Quotes About Experimentation

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.

If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played.

If, as you say, our minds are delusion generators, then we're all like blind and deaf sea captains shouting orders into the universe and hoping it makes a difference. We have no way of knowing what really works and what merely seems to work. So doesn't it make sense to try all the things that appear to work even if we can't be sure?

There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it," Albert Einstein

We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely on that. In a sense we've made ourselves into experimental animals. There are too many of us, too crowded, in an environment we've poisoned with our own-uh-byproducts. Now when this happens to a wild species, or to rats in a lab, the next generation turns out weaker and slower and more timid. This is a defense mechanism.

I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change.

You must make bold experiments in life!

Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

Where scientific observation addresses all phenomena existing in the real world, scientific experimentation addresses all possible real worlds, and scientific theory addresses all conceivable real worlds, the humanities encompass all three of these levels and one more, the infinity of all fantasy worlds.

The best of science doesn't consist of mathematical models and experiments, as textbooks make it seem. Those come later. It springs fresh from a more primitive mode of thought, wherein the hunter's mind weaves ideas from old facts and fresh metaphors and the scrambled crazy images of things recently seen. To move forward is to concoct new patterns of thought, which in turn dictate the design of the models and experiments. Easy to say, difficult to achieve.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Everything is science; everyone is a scientist in its subject.

Learning is Messy.

What makes a scientist a "Mad Scientist"? A lack of desire to publish, mainly.