Quotes about Experimentation

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right: it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

I was fortunate enough to work at the peak of the great golden age of musicals. And then for awhile, I think they were being advanced in different ways. Andrew Lloyd-Webber brought the rock beat to musicals; people tried different things. The joy of musicals is that there is no perfect recipe; it is what you throw into it.

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.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

only a tiny portion of the audience is looking for the brand-new thing. Most people are waiting for the tested, the authenticated, and the proven.

The act of trying to guarantee the success of an innovation is almost certain to make it less likely that it will succeed.

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

It will be best to start right and not let the record get confused, for some instinct tells me that these details are going to be important to the historian some day. For I feel like an experiment, I feel exactly like an experiment; it would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do, and so I am coming to feel convinced that that is what I AM—an experiment; just an experiment, and nothing more.

His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.

They believed that in watching these burnings and dissections, they had an actual window into hell itself.