Quotes About Experimentation

I don't think I have a great voice, but I started singing on my tracks and they did a lot better. So I thought, 'let's give this a go then!'

I'm always making tracks. I find that when you make tons of tracks, you stumble upon genius. You can't always turn the drum machine on and right away there's a hot track. Sometimes you luck out. But it can take a lot of time between thinking about the artist, listening to music for inspiration or going to clubs.

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right: it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process.

part of what is needed is a theory not only of how we invent, but why we invent. Recall that Edison was inventing for the pure pleasure of inventing. He worked on many of his inventions, not to meet an unmet need, but just to see what happens and what's possible. The Systemizing Mechanism is what drives curiosity.

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.

When you're young, I think it's harder to know what you want, how much of others you're willing to take in. When I was living in Paris, I tried on ideas about myself like dresses. I was always reinventing who I was.

Ive never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.

I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again; you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.

freedom to take risks—and fail—define the heart of a Skunk Works operation.

To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.

The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments.

After five years spent in retirement, he died of a chill caught while experimenting on refrigeration by stuffing a chicken full of snow. Bacon

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.