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Quotes About Experimentation

the rest of you... keep banging the rocks together
~ Douglas Adams
A scientist must be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
~ Douglas Adams
The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.
~ Douglas Preston
Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.
~ Agatha Christie
I didn't mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
~ Aimee Bender
Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia
~ Aimee Bender
4 million volts course like lovers through her body. Eerie rays eliminate from bulbous cathodes to caress her skin penetrating deep. Also somewhat like lovers, actually. Chemicals so secret they don't even have names and bubbles and spurts in her vein.
~ Alan Martin
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~ Alastair Reynolds
The way I need to look, it's a very personal thing. When I started experimenting, it was to make myself feel happy, to look in the mirror and be satisfied. I never did drag or anything like that. It was always that I wanted to be pretty, to look beautiful, as a girl would want to.
~ Andreja Pejic
Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.
~ Tim Heidecker
Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.
~ Shailene Woodley
I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.
~ Sarah Zettel
There was the phase I went through where I'd put streaks of red food colouring in my fringe as some kind of budget instant hair dye. Fine until it rained and I looked like I'd had a head injury.
~ Ellie Taylor
Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.
~ Cornelia Parker
I like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.
~ Richard Madden
I was experimenting with ways of creating edible objects from digital content, and I was working to three criteria: 1. They had to be delicious. 2. They had to be personalized. 3. They had to fit through a letterbox or in a mailbox. After much experiments, Boomf! There it was: photo marshmallows.
~ James William Middleton
I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training. By accident, I put a negative in an enlarger, and you can do many things with that negative.
~ William Klein
Doing physics is a lot of fun if you like it.
~ Ashoke Sen
We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
~ Polykarp Kusch
Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.
~ David Perlmutter
I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines, educating myself in that world.
~ Paolo Nutini
I have problems with guitars, I hammer away at it sometimes and I also do little intimate picks, I'm always looking at new guitars and little extra tweaks and stuff, I like to mix it up a bit.
~ Ben Howard
I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.
~ Peter Wright
I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.
~ Emilie de Ravin