Quotes About Experimentation

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

I have no idea how to do sketches, believe it or not.

Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

When I was 15, I wore combat boots with a fluorescent Columbia ski jacket. I was trying to find myself.

I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skillful enough at it all, we'll see.

When it comes to my skin, I experiment with a lot of home remedies.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

I've chosen films that are different compared to the conventional Bollywood films we all know and love.

I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.

I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation and love, are fundamental to the form.

I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

Scheele independently discovered eight elements—chlorine, fluorine, manganese, barium, molybdenum, tungsten, nitrogen, and oxygen—but received credit for none of them in his lifetime. He had an unfortunate habit of tasting every substance he worked with, as a way of familiarizing himself with its properties, and eventually the practice caught up with him.

Charles Darwin, driven to desperation by a mysterious lifelong malady that left him chronically lethargic, routinely draped himself with electrified zinc chains, doused his body with vinegar, and glumly underwent hours of pointless tingling in the hope that it would effect some improvement. It never did. The

Experimentation without mathematical explanation is blind; mathematical explanation without experimentation is empty.

Clearly there was a need for some inspired and clever experimentation, and happily the age produced a young person with the diligence and aptitude to undertake it.

Bacon's dichotomy is still germane today: a former President of the Royal Society, George Porter, encapsulated it by the maxim 'there are two kinds of science, applied and not yet applied'.

Science is about making stuff, just as much as it is about understanding stuff.

If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.

New Rule: Instead of using their $10 billion atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider to re-create the Big Bang by melting atom parts in temperatures a million times hotter than the sun, scientists should not do that. I'm just sayin' it sounds dangerous. I'm as interested as the next guy in determining the origin of matter, but first couldn't we solve some simple mystery, like why some-detector batteries always die at four a.m.?