Experimental Quotes
304 quotes by 251 authors
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Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule…
— Arthur Eddington
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I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.
— Sarah Zettel
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I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
— Bill Forsyth
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No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing…
— Carrie P Snow
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There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important,…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Youth is wholly experimental.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant…
— Marshall McLuhan
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It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
— Arthur Eddington
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To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts.
— Asger Jorn
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One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
— Charles Fort
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[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I've grown up playing pop music for the experimental crowd and I always feel like I'm pushing something weird on people. I had this underdog…
— Girl Talk
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I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci…
— John Frusciante
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I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment -…
— Peter Gabriel
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When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents -…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I always wanted to be really experimental.
— Grimes
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.
— Jesse Eisenberg
Who Wrote These Experimental Quotes
251 authors contributed a total of 304 Experimental Quotes, led by these top contributors: