Top 100 Life Experiment Quotes
#1. I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.
Ahmet Zappa
#2. Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#3. More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty.
Krista Tippett
#4. Everyone is involved in experiments of one kind of another. Everything we do in life is the result of our own or someone else's experimentation. My experiment simulations are just conducted in a more honest format." Dillon explained.
Jill Thrussell
#6. All life is an experiment.
Ken Liu
#7. We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.
Johann Baptist Metz
#8. Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypothesis. But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion or not.
Milan Kundera
#9. Always re-invent yourself. Always try new things; new food, new hobbies, meet new people. That will keep your life from becoming stagnant and boring. And you will have a lot more fun!
Lisa Bedrick
#10. By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.
Rusty Schweickart
#11. Any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
John Wilmot
#12. When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#13. Life is an experiment, experiment by sending as many ideas in the universe and see which idea takes off and put your heart into that.
Matthew Donnelly
#14. I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.
Steve Gleason
#15. When it's my turn, I introduce myself as Josh Raymond, seventeen, no previous experience beyond my recent halfhearted experiment with sleeping pills. "The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is life," I add, even though no one knows what this means
Jennifer Niven
#16. Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
T. S. Eliot
#17. In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.
Isla Fisher
#18. While I didn't have a father around, I did have - and what I want my children to both experience - the ability to explore, experiment and enjoy life as a kid.
Kendra Wilkinson
#19. Life is like an experiment. If you don't test yourself, you will never find the right result for you.
Monique Poche
#21. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
David Cronenberg
#23. Life is on-going experiment. The moment the experiment ends, life ends.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
#25. Guerrilla marketing requires you to comprehend every facet of marketing, experiment with many of them, winnow out the losers, double up on the winners, and then use the marketing tactics that prove themselves to you in the battleground of real life.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#26. In the beginning there was dust, and one day the great, improbable experiment of life will return to dust. We are not secure. Just as our ultimate genesis was entangled with the birth of suns, and the terrifying tumult of asteroids and meteorites, so we are still bound to the cosmos.
Richard Fortey
#27. Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.
George A. Sheehan
#28. I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Charles Lamb
#29. All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.
Philip Bobbitt
#30. These Aussie girls are free to set their own courses in the world, to meander and experiment. Their travels are not bumps along the road - they are life itself. See the world and then come home and decide who you want to be in it, not the other way around, as seems the general trajectory in the U.S.
Rachel Friedman
#32. Say nothing of the new life you have begun or of the experiment you are making and experiences you expect to have. All this is a matter between God and you, and only between you two.
Tito Colliander
#33. Life is an experiment, I'm curious to see what will happen next.
Anastasia
#34. The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and experiment alike show thought to be most difficult.
The intolerable burden of thought.
Walter Lippmann
#35. I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
Mary Augusta Ward
#36. I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally.
Jerrold Nadler
#37. I am afraid, I cannot and will not 'surrender' to Orthodoxy!!
My life in itself is an 'Epic experiment' of nature and new living!!
And I am living the 'Great Adventure'..this moment..NOW!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#40. I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Madonna
#41. We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.
Henry David Thoreau
#42. Be not anxious;yesterday is your experience, today is your experiment and tomorrow is your expectation. Maximize the time!
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#43. We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
Keith Richards
#44. Our life is the instrument we use to experiment with the truth.
Eliot Pattison
#45. Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
Hippocrates
#46. To an INTJ, life is a giant experiment where the goal is to continually improve everything around them - projects, tools, relationships, theories, organizations. They seek to be competent in everything they do, and their ceaseless need for improvement means that good enough never is.
Anna Moss
#47. Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.
Carla H. Krueger
#48. Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world ... That in itself gives you a different perspective.
Bryan Ferry
#50. If your questioning whether something will work or not. Remember that life is an experiment. Don't over analyze just act with heart and passion and move forward in compassion.
Matthew Donnelly
#51. The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.
Jerry Moss
#52. I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
#53. If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
Terence McKenna
#54. Through scientific experiment they'd demonstrated that there may be such a thing as a life force flowing through the universe - what has variously been called collective consciousness or, as theologians have termed it, the Holy Spirit.
Lynne McTaggart
#55. We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.
Carl Jung
#56. The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates
#57. Life is too short not to experiment.
Jamelia
#58. Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment with life.
Paul Davies
#59. The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#60. Life is like a double-blind experiment. And the Observer is the only One in on the Know.
Solange Nicole
#61. Can I bring the Lord back into my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind? I choose to make the rest of my life an experiment in answering this question. Frank Laubach1
Gregory A. Boyd
#62. To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.
Moby
#64. No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year
ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge
and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#65. I'd have devoured those books I've come to love - the ones that have helped me reawaken my sexuality. The books that have made me realize it's okay to want more out of my sex life, to want my husband to push the envelope with me. Experiment with me. Demand more of me.
C.D. Reiss
#66. You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais Nin
#67. As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away ... I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
Tom Shadyac
#68. My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#69. My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.
Yoko Ono
#70. Having said that, what I think we found, in doing the show, and in life, generally, is that the more you try to separate sex from everything else, it's impossible. You can't. The act of observation affects the actual experiment, and we see that in this.
Michael Sheen
#71. It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no sense, you think, 'I hate this job.' Then ten minutes later you think, 'Well, now, maybe I'll try this or I'll try that.' You do it because you know there will be an 'a-ha!' day.
Bonnie Bassler
#72. Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least.
Santosh Kalwar
#73. No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.
Zeena Schreck
#76. All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#77. Every aspect of life is an experiment that can be better understood if it is perceived in that way.
John Brockman
#78. I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.
Donna Air
#79. The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
Philip Zimbardo
#80. A curious thought experiment ... Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
Irvin D. Yalom
#81. Life is an experiment to invent yourself again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Life may be scary
But it's only temporary.
And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.
from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment
Quentin S. Crisp
#83. She could not stick by the golden mean ... was always anxious to experiment in extremes ... to find out what was enough by indulging herself in too much. (Gordon Lameyer)
Elizabeth Winder
#85. When I went to the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2002, I decided I wanted to leave my car at home and create an experiment with my own life. I'd only be able to find creative solutions to transportation if I felt the pain of trying to get to downtown at 10 o'clock at night.
Logan Green
#86. Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.
Raimon Panikkar
#87. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.
Rosalind Franklin
#88. Her arousal shocked her. It went against everything she believed in to act like a man's slave and yet this was different. Just like her sexuality was his creation, this erection was hers. She owned it, she'd given it life.
Elliot Mabeuse
#89. Because no matter how experimental he is, his life isn't an experiment.
Cheryl Strayed
#90. I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been attracted to Asian women. I've been attracted to various subspecies of women. I can say with gratitude that I've been able to experiment.
Oliver Stone
#92. You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.
Ryan Adams
#93. Look at your life as an experiment. Make a comprise with all your doubts and fears: For a year or two, do what you can to move toward your ideal scene, in a easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way. See what happens.
Mark Allen
#94. If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.
Hermann Hesse
#97. If everything is an illusion. To experiment is to find out what's real.
Matthew Donnelly
#98. The vision is true north for the soul. It is a permanent, intuitive compass direction for a human being. Every person inevitably strays from the path. Life is an endless experiment and course correction. The vision brings one back to the true path.
Thomas G. Bandy
#99. If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#100. Life is an experiment to love yourself and others until you find that there is no difference between you and the others.
Debasish Mridha
