Trial And Error Quotes - Page 3

• Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

  Keith Henson

  Children, Errors, Trials

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• We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical fabric of the universe, and that they are also at play in biological processes. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

  Albert Claude

  Knowledge, Science, Errors

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• This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, War, Character

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• New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Business, Errors, Imagination

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• When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

  John Fogerty

  Moon, Errors, Blue

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• If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Daughter, Mother, Oysters

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• Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.

  Nick Bostrom

  Opportunity, Errors, Risk

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• I learned to cook by watching and helping my mother in the kitchen. I also learned by trial and error. Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

  Nina Dobrev

  Mother, Errors, Risk

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Intelligent, Thinking, Errors

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I'm not the kind of person who could join AA or have rules for myself or on Thursday take this vitamin pill. So, basically, I learned the hard way. I learned by trial and error, and tried to get drugs out of my work. That took about a year. If I was going to work, it was best that I be straight. And I was surprised at what came out.

  Iggy Pop

  Years, Errors, Drug

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

  William Deresiewicz

  Errors, Doubt, Trials

  William Deresiewicz (2015). “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

  Joan Robinson

  Science, Errors, Progress

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.38, Transaction Publishers

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• I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.

  April Bloomfield

  Jobs, Mistake, Errors

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• As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Country, Thinking, Errors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

  Karl Donitz

  Men, Errors, Trials

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• The faithful believe that certain truths have been 'revealed.' The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Errors, Faithful

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• Children, then, acquire social skills not so much from adults as from their interactions with one another. They are likely to discover through trial and error which strategies work and which do not, and later to reflect consciously on what they have learned.

  Zick Rubin

  Children, Errors, Skills

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• For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and then try to form the poem - on a typewriter or on my computer - and, by trial and error, try to find the right shape. I just try to keep forming the poem in different ways until it feels right to me.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Writing, Mean, Errors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.

  Kevin Allen

  Errors, Risk, Survival

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with
  more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Running, Errors, Government

  "What Do You Care What Other People Think". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1988.

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• So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Errors, Trials

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I said, I wanna be a comedian, I wanna get good.' You're not good in the beginning. You're still trying to figure out what the things are that you are going to talk about, what your angle is going to be and there's a lot of trial and error. I just never gave up and that was the beginning of my career. Just experimenting, trying it out and falling in love with it.

  Bill Bellamy

  Falling In Love, College, Thinking

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• I don't have the educated knowledge of what textures, colors, shapes and spaces need to be put together to make something just right. I'm learning it by trial and error, which is something that's slow going.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Space, Errors, Color

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Intelligent, Errors, Self

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• Indonesia isn't the most beautiful country in the world. I don't think so. Italy is much lovelier - and France too. It's a very problematic country. And that's why you have to stay here for the rest of your life. Indonesia is a process. It's not a finished idea. It's a practice, and a trial and error.

  Goenawan Mohamad

  Beautiful, Country, Thinking

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