experimentation quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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