Experimentation Quotes

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

Single, Wrong, Prove

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

Purpose, Taking, Hollywood

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis Diderot

Nature, Knowledge, Means

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
Donna Karan

Time, Real, Evening

Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Successful, Long, Try

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.
Stanislav Grof

Work, Young, Among

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
Claude Bernard

Science, Active, Passive

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
Tim Robbins

Young, York, Theater

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.
Andy Goldsworthy

Done, Far, Spirit

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Anthony Burgess

Country, Try, Sense

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
Martin Gore

Music, Boring, Until

Experimentation is an active science.
Claude Bernard

Science, Active

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
Brian Ferneyhough

Work, Art, Failure

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.
Jennifer Capriati

Life, Lost, Path

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.
Richard King

Important, Horror, Filmmaking

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.
Matt Gonzalez

Mind, Justice, Young

A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.
Emile Hirsch

Family, Focus, Done

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.
John Desmond Bernal

Service, Greater, Modern

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

Fiction, Ceases

I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.
Bill Rodgers

Shoes, Running, Gradual

There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.
Andre Dubus III

Experience, Beautiful, Deep

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.
Terry Riley

Music, Live, Play

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
Jack Steinberger

State, Wild, Easily

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.
Mark White

Experience, Personal, Sound

Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space.
Rob Bishop

Important, America, Honor

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 experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.
Paul Nitze

Science, Today, Human

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
John Spencer

Future, Technology, Real

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

Experience, Living, Ancestors

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