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• No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Years, Ideas, Mysterious

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.255, Vintage

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• No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Doe, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.261, Penguin

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• Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Able, Quiet

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• The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Attitude, Mean, Artist

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.

  Pablo Picasso

  Tired, Trying, Lasts

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• Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Research, Painting

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• So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

  Beverly Sills

  Long, Listening, Opera

  Newsweek, Volume 103, p. 4, 1984.

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• I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Discovery, Two

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• Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

  Julia Child

  Creativity, Drawing, Creative

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• I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.

  Albert Ellis

  Regret, Outcomes, Able

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• The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Fashion, Yesterday, Today

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• The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.

  Ben Kingsley

  Numbers, Choices, Events

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• All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Past, Men, Life Is

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• The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Freedom, Ideas, Creative

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• Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Character, People, Decision

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• What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

  Natalia Makarova

  Tired, Want, Waste

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• Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

  Martin Rees

  Together, Atoms, Earth

  Martin J. Rees (2003). “Our final century: a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century - on Earth and beyond”, Vintage

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• Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.

  Trent Reznor

  Play, Piano, Discipline

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• One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Mind, Enquiry

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• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Data, Mind

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Fool, Made

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• Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.

  Roger Revelle

  Ocean, Past, Rocks

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• We must never lose sight of the fact that we must take part in the development, not only of ourselves but of all humanity... I want you to understand that there never was or has been or will be, in the minds of the founders, including myself, the thought of any reward any notice coming to us for this experiment in brotherly cooperation and comradeship, which we initiated and which has developed, not necessarily because of any efforts of ours, into one of the best regarded organizations in the Negro collegiate world.

  Jewel

  Sight, Organization, Effort

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• Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Men

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• I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Imagination, Satisfied

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