Experimentation Quotes · Page 4

At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.

— Mark Tobey

One of the main reasons for success on the show is that we're not a demonstration show. We're an experimentation show.

— Jamie Hyneman

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

— Roisin Murphy

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

— John Cheever

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

— Sebastian Thrun

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

— Elon Musk

Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

— Scott D. Anthony

Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“The concentration camps were a laboratory for the Nazis. They put the minorities and intellectuals in there because the general population wouldn't…

— Wendy Hoffman

To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog…

— Bill Maher

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a…

— Billy Corgan

It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where…

— Edmund White

Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those…

— David Tudor

He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that…

— Gil Scott-Heron

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing…

— John W. Gardner

“It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in…

— Philip Pullman

Fashion lives in the world of ideals; it is not necessarily grounded in the real world. The question becomes whose ideal it…

— Isabel Toledo

Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the…

— Thomas A. Edison

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an…

— Tom Peters

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find…

— David Lynch

Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path…

— Douglass North

Creativity is your best makeup skill, don't be afraid to experiment.

— Pat McGrath

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

— Eric Ries

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

— Jeremy Stoppelman

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

— Henry Steele Commager

America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.

— Henry Steele Commager

“A little bit of self-experimentation never hurt anybody, except when it did.”

— Daniel H. Wilson

“If you are lost, find yourself by filling your days with constant experimentation.”

— Trevor Carss

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

— Max Delbruck

Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.

— Louis Pasteur

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

— Isaac Stern

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

— Orson Welles

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

— Jasper Fforde

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

— Carl Jung

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

— Albert Einstein

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

— Erica Jong

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

— George Bernard Shaw