Experiments Quotes

• All life is an experiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Nature, Reality

  "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 1934.

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

  Simon Sinek

  Trying, Failing, Experimentation

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2011

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Creativity, Entrepreneur, Outcomes

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• The true method of knowledge is experiment.

  William Blake

  Knowledge, Experience, Action

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

  Thomas Sowell

  Smart, Science, Thinking

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• It doesn’t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

  Joan Clarke

  Smart, Science, Matter

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• I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.

  Monica Keena

  Mean Girls, Sex, Growing Up

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• Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Movement, Firsts, Poetic

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• I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

  Buck Owens

  Song, Fun, Thinking

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• With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.

  Phil Anselmo

  Heavy, Clear, Hairstyles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  Iris Chang

  Book, Comfort, Stories

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• We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

  Amar Bose

  Boston, Years, Symphony

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• There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Use, Lasers, Physics

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• If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

  Don Ellis

  Style, World, Jazz

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• Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Kids, Matter, Honest

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• One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Results

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• I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

  Pablo Picasso

  Different, Way, Made

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• I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing.

  E. J. Hughes

  Art, Important, Different

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• As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.

  E. J. Hughes

  Art, Age, Bigs

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• My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

  William Dobell

  Done, Best Work, Feels

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• I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's essential to continually experiment with different subject matter, types of paint and methods of painting.

  Ron Parker

  Art, Thinking, Training

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• I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Art, Building Up, Knives

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• We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

  Doug Dawson

  Ideas, Creative, Pool

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• To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.

  Banesh Hoffmann

  Secret, World, Causality

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