Experimentation Quotes

145 quotes by 134 authors

Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over… — Douglass North
Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism — Nathan Rosenberg
I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place and culture. Together,… — Glenn Murcutt
To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your… — Bill Maher
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to… — Aldo Leopold
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human… — Paul Nitze
Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages whenâ€¦ we have the freedom to make the most of the best… — Michael Chekhov
Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of their thoughts. The… — Robert A. Burton
One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid… — Richard Evans Schultes
The term pre-embryo is useful in the political arena - where decisions are made about whether to allow early embryo (now called pre-embryo) experimentation -… — Lee M. Silver
I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do… — Greil Marcus
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. — John Cheever
Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation. — Louis Pasteur
What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care]. — Stephen Harper
Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who… — David Tudor
Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires. — Eric Ries
The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and… — George Brett
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from… — Francois Jacob
For me, experimentation is not about the technology. In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be… — Ze Frank

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