Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
Thomas A. EdisonTags: failure experimentation
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.
Robert M. PirsigTags: science failure scientific-method experimentation hypothesis results
Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.
Yvon ChouinardTags: risk experimentation on-the-edge
The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.
Carl CohenTags: justice prison experimentation issues benefits
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom imagination intelligence education knowledge learning school college risk experimentation development study test exam confirmed confirmation blank fill-in-the-blank
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
Criss JamiTags: intelligence art thinking insanity philosophy madness mind absurd thought theory artist absurdity experimentation intellectual ecstasy insane intellectualism experiment too-much outrageous out-of-my-mind
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard P. FeynmanTags: science theory experimentation
Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.
Harold Edmund StearnsTags: acceptance freedom adventure youth civilization america status-quo idealism possibility rebellion experimentation institutionalized emigration flexibility revolt lost-generation desertion looting
Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules VerneTags: science truth knowledge facts scientific-method experimentation
Don't kid yourself by saying that one time can't make you addicted. It can. I believed it couldn't too when I first tried meth. I was so, so wrong. The worst part about it is that you won't realize what has happened immediately afterwards. Addiction is a gradual process and it doesn't happen overnight. But trust me when I tell you that one time is all that it takes to set this into motion. It can and it will.
Ashly LorenzanaTags: addiction drugs experimentation
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