Experimental Quotes

#1. Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#2. Experimental film by the '70s had become much more mainstream after 'Bonnie and Clyde' and stuff in the late '60s, when you were seeing bigger movies where people were exploring the medium a lot more.

Noah Hawley

#3. The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

Rachel Dratch

#4. When an animal is infected, either naturally or by experimental injection, with a bacterium, virus, or other foreign body, the animal recognises this as an invader and acts in such a way as to remove or destroy it.

Cesar Milstein

#5. A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.

Ramsay Burt

#6. Of course, the other thing about evolution is that anything can be said because very little can be disproved. Experimental evidence is minimal.

Bryan Appleyard

#7. I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

Ennio Morricone

#8. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention. I sleep as if injected with a powerful experimental muscle relaxant.

Bill Bryson

#9. Which the experimental participant leaned her head on a chin-and-forehead rest and stared at a camera while listening to prerecorded information and answering questions on the recorded beats of a metronome. The beats triggered an infrared flash every second, causing a

Daniel Kahneman

#10. The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.

Randolph Bourne

#11. PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation ... Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

Paul Dirac

#13. Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

Brian Greene

#14. Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.

Teller

#15. While Einstein was still a patent clerk he had studied the work of the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach, for whom the goal of science was not to discern the nature of reality, but to describe experimental data, the 'facts', as economically as possible.

Manjit Kumar

#16. Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

John Bunyan

#17. All novels are experimental.

Anthony Burgess

#18. NASA gets to name their missions after gods and stuff, so why can't I? Henceforth, rover experimental missions will be "Sirius" missions. Get it? Dogs? Well if you don't, fuck you.

Andy Weir

#19. Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

Charles Manning Child

#20. People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#21. Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline.

Maurice Allais

#22. I have no reason to believe that the human intellect is able to weave a system of physics out of its own resources without experimental labor. Whenever the attempt had been made it has resulted in an unnatural and self-contradictory mass of rubbish.

Nancy Forbes

#23. You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

Dave Lombardo

#24. As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

Will Self

#25. There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

Len Lye

#26. Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

Robert Morgan

#27. The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

John F. Kennedy

#28. Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Alan Bradley

#29. Otto said, raising an eyebrow. 'You know it's almost like people don't want me interfering with their highly advanced experimental weapon systems these days.'

'How very inconsiderate of them,' Raven said.

Mark Walden

#30. The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

Kenichi Fukui

#31. Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

William Shakespeare

#32. My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who was fantastic. We eventually got our own place, and my mother started learning to cook. But it was also the '70s, so she was very experimental, and, well - thank God we had a dog.

Debi Mazar

#33. The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

Judith Guest

#34. A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

Richard Prince

#35. Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

Steven Spielberg

#36. A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

Paul Dirac

#37. Given the right experimental manipulations, people can be led to believe that they consciously intended an action when they neither chose it nor had control over their movements.

Sam Harris

#38. One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions ... like a state of sheer terror.

William Kenneth Hartmann

#39. When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

David Antin

#40. Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

Gus Van Sant

#41. The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Albert Einstein

#42. Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some of the experimental work which is not available to us from the armchair.

Hilary Kornblith

#43. This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.

Martin Lewis Perl

#44. I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

#45. If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!

George Herbert

#46. It's sort of nice in more general terms to see that computational science, computational biology is being recognized. It's become a very large field, and it's always in some ways been the poor sister, or the ugly sister, to experimental biology.

Michael Levitt

#47. An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting.

Richard Lewontin

#48. About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.

Rudolph A. Marcus

#49. One is almost tempted to say ... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most convenient fiction which, as we have seen, is convenient both to experimental and theoretical chemists.

Charles Coulson

#50. Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

John William Draper

#51. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

Albert Claude

#52. Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

Che Guevara

#53. The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.

Andrew Bird

#54. The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

Simone Weil

#55. To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#56. You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

Trey Parker

#57. I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

Donald Davis

#58. The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

Eric Andre

#59. In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.

Karl Ferdinand Braun

#60. For the billionaire looking for the extra billion, and indeed for the participant in an experimental economics project looking for the extra dollar, money is a proxy for points on a scale of self-regard and achievement. These rewards and punishments, promises and threats, are all in our heads.

Daniel Kahneman

#61. I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

Paul Nurse

#62. I don't mind showing you my dick, Rosie. It could be for experimental purposes. Science. Although, it wouldn't be very fair to all the other men you will probably see, since I'm so big and girthy.

Meghan Quinn

#63. I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#64. A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

Leo Tolstoy

#65. Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Bernard Baruch

#66. Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.

Louis Pasteur

#67. We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

Mike Lowry

#68. I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

Oswald Spengler

#69. P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence.

Marcel Dzama

#70. Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Peter D. Mitchell

#71. I cared nothing; my point of view in that instance, as in all others like it, was, that if the paper chose to send an outsider and an ignoramus to criticise works of art - especially the works of a new and tentative and experimental school - then, on the head of the paper let the just doom fall.

Arthur Machen

#72. With a drug trial, everyone gets the exact same pill or the exact same placebo. With therapy, you can't separate the tools from the person using the tools. There's no good experimental technique for measuring a therapist's kindness, wisdom or judgment.

Anonymous

#73. The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

Cynthia Weil

#74. Is it experimental?" "All medicine is experimental. All therapies work on some patients but not on others. You must listen to what I tell you: medicine offers no guarantees.

Ken Follett

#75. My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

Rainn Wilson

#76. I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

Richard Linklater

#77. It's always my goal to be more mature-sounding, more convincing, but also more experimental, and more challenging for myself. If it's not a little bit harder every time I make a new track, then I'm being lazy.

Lotic

#78. The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

Pierre Duhem

#79. My tendency is to be very experimental.

Sean Lennon

#80. I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.

Nina Menkes

#81. One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Matthew Stewart

#82. I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions of phantasmatical seeming philosophy. {William Petty]

Carl Zimmer

#83. Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena
[sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.

Ian Hacking

#84. My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?

Jasmine Guinness

#85. The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.

Walt Disney

#86. In a funny way I think social media is making people less rather more experimental. People are too worried about looking good all the time. When I grew up you could get it all horribly wrong and it didn't matter, there was no record.

Patrick Grant

#87. I didn't have to see this big clock on the wall and worry. Most of the record I made was experimental. If you have a lot of time to do that you don't have to worry about the money, plus, I had no money. It was more out of necessity than choice.

Daniel Powter

#88. I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#89. The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Albert Einstein

#90. Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

#91. [Fantasy] is a constructive aspect of the child's experimental exploration of reality, or his progressive relating of himself to reality, of his trial-and-error attempts to solve his reality problems.

Lauretta Bender

#92. With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.

Claude Bernard

#93. You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.

Isabella Rossellini

#94. No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

Imre Lakatos

#95. One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.

Robert B. Laughlin

#96. Furless now, upright, My banished
and experimental
child
You said, though your own heart condemn you
I do not condemn you.

Franz Wright

#97. A single scream erupted from the crowd. It was a sort of experimental sound, trying to decide if now, finally, fear was the correct response.

Maggie Stiefvater

#98. People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.

Bill Gates

#99. [Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.

Isaac Todhunter

#100. The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

Orville Wright