Courses Quote by Ivar Giaever

I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged…

— Marie Curie

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

— Paul Dickson

“Failures are inevitable when you experiment, but it is a trial-and-error process that gives results.”

— Haresh Sippy

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

— William Kamkwamba

It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is,…

— Peter Medawar

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

— Scott Berkun

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

— Verner Panton

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

— Orson Welles

Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination.

— Jonah Lehrer

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

— Charles K. Kao

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

— Jose Mujica