Quotes About Experimentation

It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way.

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good actor to look up to because he's done so many genres of films.

Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

And inquiries into nature have the best result when they begin with physics and end in mathematics.

It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.

Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer.

Historically some of the most prosperous societies - Ancient Athens, Renaissance Italy, nineteenth century Britain - were among those that were most oriented towards experimentation and the taking of risks.

Instead of looking at leadership as decision making—as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures—a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

There are very few things we can know beforehand. We will try and if we find we are wrong, we will have to change.

we must employ tactics that allow us to learn as many things as possible without getting stuck in a particular way of thinking about those things.

I ain't drunk," Wayne said, sniffling. "I'm investigatin' alternative states of sobriety.

If there was a universal law regarding mankind, it was that they'd find a way to ferment anything, given time.

Resigned sigh." I looped us after an enemy ship. "Did you just say the words resigned sigh?" "I find human nonlinguistic communications to be too easily misinterpreted," he said. "So I'm experimenting with ways to make them more explicit." "Doesn't that defeat the purpose?" "Obviously not. Dismissive eye-roll.

there is nothing more uncertain than the creative process, and there is absolutely no innovation without failure.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?