My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

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

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He’s not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

I’m a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it’s a process I’ve been doing since I was younger.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.