Quotes About Experimentation

Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.

I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.

The '60s were an amazing time.

Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

que culminarían en el dogma de la experimentación como único camino para el descubrimiento de la verdad.

And I've long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk.

Todas as grandes descobertas da cozinha tradicional, os primeiros tipos que comeram miúdos de vitela, ou experimentaram queijo Stilton não pasteurizado, ou descobriram que os caracóis afinal sabem bem com bastante manteiga de alho, eram todos temerários e inovadores, ou estavam desesperados.

Mr. Deacon, on the other hand, was in favour of abolishing, or ignoring, the existing world entirely, with a view to experimenting with one of an entirely different order. He was a student of Esperanto (or, possibly, one of the lesser-known artificial languages), intermittently vegetarian, and an advocate of decimal coinage.

Any fool could shuffle genes and most did.

We obtained another guinea pig, chloroformed it, and sent it through the transmitter. To our delight, it revived. We immediately had it killed and stuffed for the benefit of posterity. You can see it in the museum with the rest of our apparatus.

It seems there's no way of making a living in this world that I haven't tried. The one thing left is matchmaking.

The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.

Art and science do not establish themselves despite failure but through it;

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

There's something about being naïve. Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

Google takes to heart the power of exploration. For 20 percent of their time, employees may go where their mind asks them to go. The proof is in the bottom line: Fully 50 percent of new products, including Gmail and Google News, came from "20 percent time.

The desire to control everything is giving way to pluralism, uniformity to diversity, centralization to localism, opacity to transparency, and immobilisme, or the resistance to change, to experimentation. The state is beginning to move in each case (though it could move a lot faster).

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.