Quotes about Experimentation

When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.'

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new.

I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We go places commercial cinema doesn't go, but sometimes it's to our own detriment.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

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.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.

The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.