#experimentation

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

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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. ↗

— Orson Welles

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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

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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

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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

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It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. ↗

— Claude Bernard

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I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes. ↗

— Bill Rodgers

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