Quotes on Experimentation

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

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

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

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 conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

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 time, the richer the cultural context in terms of providing multiple experimentation and creative competition, the more likely the successful survival of the society

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

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

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

At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.

Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.