165 Quotes About Experiment

"In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination."

"So [in mathematics] we get to play and imagine whatever we want and make patterns and ask questions about them. But how do we answer these questions? It’s not at all like science. There’s no experiment I can do ... The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations, and that is hard work."

"Explore, experiment and experience."

"Life for me is just a result of experiments being performed by far more developed creatures."

"Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it again with exactly the same conditions--that it is, in fact, impossible. Locally, you might get the conditions exactly the same, but you have to embed the experiment in the universe, and that has moved on. You can't rewind the wave function of the universe and rerun it. The universe is a one-time-only experiment that includes us as part of its wave function, and there's no going back."

"You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers."

"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."

"Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience."

"Life is a concept, like the “universe", that expands as soon as we reach what we think is its edge."