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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. -- John Cheever
Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way. -- Donna Karan
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. -- Albert Einstein
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
Reward worthy failure - Experimentation. -- Bill Gates
Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art. -- Bob Marley
Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism -- Nathan Rosenberg
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. -- Paul Auster
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature. -- Isaac Asimov
Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well. -- Eddy de Clercq
Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation. -- Gaston Bachelard
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. -- Claude Bernard
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. -- Madonna Ciccone
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation . -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. -- George Bernard Shaw
Yes, natural is good and healthy, and whole foods are important. However, experimentation is important, too. -- David Chang
Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. -- Max Delbruck
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way -- Paul Theroux
I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions. -- David Suzuki
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund. -- Anthony Bourdain
I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things. -- S. Robson Walton
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. -- Orson Welles
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. -- John Spencer
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. -- Richard P. Feynman
We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected. -- Dalai Lama
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. -- Marcus Aurelius
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
The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process. -- Steven Levitt
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. -- Galileo Galilei
Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves. -- Louis J. Camuti
I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it. -- Conor Oberst
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
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character. -- Hedi Slimane
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance. -- David Blaine
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
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
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction. -- Moby
A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution. -- J. Oswald Sanders
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
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
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification. -- Greg Graffin
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
I never intended to become a commercial filmmaker in the first place. What I do requires time and experimentation. Commercial work is often not the best way to get the most innovative work, because it's about money and marketing. Although advertising is now embracing non-commercial people. -- Marco Brambilla
Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease. -- Evgeny Morozov
The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research. -- Elizabeth Blackwell
Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life. -- John W. Gardner
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
I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist. -- Greg Graffin
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. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes. The laws of chemistry are the melodies that one can play on these strings. the universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace. -- Michio Kaku
Most animal experimentation is useless. -- Henry Heimlich
I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes. -- Bill Rodgers
Data Science wisdom comes only through failed experimentation. -- Damian Mingle
Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation. -- Jimmy Carr
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science. -- Claude Bernard
I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. -- Jack Steinberger
There is always room in our budget for a little experimentation. -- Beth Comstock
Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation. -- Scott D. Anthony
Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation. -- Louis Pasteur
Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation. -- Robert Genn
Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging. -- Robert Henri
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation. -- Henry Steele Commager
The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound. -- Mark White
Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have. -- Erica Jong
It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like. -- Andrew Mason
Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation. -- Jasper Fforde
There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong. -- George Bernard Shaw
You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind. -- Jeremy Stoppelman
Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error. -- Kevin Allen
Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires. -- Eric Ries
What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care]. -- Stephen Harper
With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. -- John Lasseter
The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails. -- Simon Sinek
Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions. -- Mary Tyler Moore
For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication. -- Karen Russell
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. -- Elon Musk
New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation. -- Tim Robbins
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a clichÃ© ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. -- Paul Halmos
Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations. -- Joseph Murray
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. -- David Quammen
The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation. -- George Brett
The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together. -- Paul Lansky
At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit. -- Mark Tobey
It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. -- Stanislav Grof
We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. -- Dalai Lama XIV
At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out. -- Dallas Campbell
You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well. -- Scott D. Anthony
Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education. -- Felix Morley
This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something. -- David Lynch
Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed. -- Paul Vixie
Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it. -- Harriet Lerner
I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor. -- Billy Corgan
For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic. -- Giorgio Armani
Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it. -- Ian Bogost
The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component. -- Bengt I. Samuelsson
Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed. -- Paul Russo
I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas. -- Edward Einhorn
It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark. -- Edmund White
I encourage playfulness and experimentation with both the camera and subject matter. Sometimes there is an obvious perspective, but it is important never to be satisfied with that. -- Michael Kenna
Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work. -- Cherie Carter-Scott
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. -- Newton N. Minow
I think beauty is youth; it's energy. I'm attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things. It's kind of unexpected-what surprises you. -- Marc Jacobs
He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and conservative libertarians have embraced today because he loves state experimentation. -- Jeffrey Rosen
I've definitely learned more about myself through experimentation over the years - which products work best for my skin and tricks from various makeup artists I've been lucky enough to work with. -- Ashley Greene
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
The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator. -- Eric Temple Bell
A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs! -- William Kunstler
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. -- Adrienne Rich
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? -- Aldo Leopold
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 by a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Pure experimentation? Perhaps not. -- Richard Evans Schultes
Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category. -- Vince Aletti
Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models. -- Virginia Postrel
As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself. -- Mark McNairy
The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation. -- Carroll Quigley
I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them. -- Gil Scott-Heron

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