Quotes about Experimentation

only a tiny portion of the audience is looking for the brand-new thing. Most people are waiting for the tested, the authenticated, and the proven.

The act of trying to guarantee the success of an innovation is almost certain to make it less likely that it will succeed.

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

It will be best to start right and not let the record get confused, for some instinct tells me that these details are going to be important to the historian some day. For I feel like an experiment, I feel exactly like an experiment; it would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do, and so I am coming to feel convinced that that is what I AM—an experiment; just an experiment, and nothing more.

His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.

They believed that in watching these burnings and dissections, they had an actual window into hell itself.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.

That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?

A writer] should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, they will succeed.