Top 177 Experimental Quotes

I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there’s some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That’s the kind of thing we would talk about.

I don’t really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It’s more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation with noise.

Even my first film Poda Podi’ was supposed to be remade in Telugu. That was an experimental film.

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

I can be very modern and experimental.

As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. This happened in 1989. Since then, it’s been a long road of educating myself in every possible way.

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

Radio is immediate and experimental. It’s really lo-fi – you can have an idea, go out and record something, come back in and just put it on air.

Ulrik Ottinger was the most real and experimental of all the German New Wave directors. She was probably the most out-there, too. She’s a fascinating artist in that world.

All our wives are experimental psychologists.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I’d already written. And I didn’t want to be an actor.

There’s a certain kind of idealism attached to ‘Tusk’ as a subtext to the music, and I think people now can respond not only to how colorful and experimental it is, but also why it was made.

Personally, I might be all for parallel or experimental cinema, but when I’m making a film, I don’t mind adding a commercial tadka.

People usually call me for experimental songs.

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that’s just the experimental side of me.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Experimental or independent cinema is so exciting because it is about risk-taking, as there is no formula.

The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.

The success of ‘Dhruva’ has given me more satisfaction than any of my previous hits, simply because the audience accepted the film even though it was experimental. I really hope this kind of acceptance makes experimental cinema the new mainstream cinema.

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

I own a fart CD. It has, I believe, over 100 fart sounds. A lovely variety, from the up-close and personal to the more experimental and dissonant. Some people prefer to listen to Bach when they go to sleep… not me.

I just really remember the feeling of being a younger comedian who was kind of an outlier for being experimental and weird and how that could feel lonely or hopeless.

Living and performing in New York has allowed me to try my weirder and more experimental things.

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

Free time keeps me going. It’s just something that’s always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

But I really like our experimental, performance and monologue videos, where there’s barely jokes in the video, where it’s almost a joke in itself that the monologue is even being recorded.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

Being on Netflix lets us be experimental. We can do crazy things.

Yes, I worked hard to put together an experimental show on a budget of zero. But I was not being exploited by anyone. I was in charge.

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there’s always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don’t want it to be thought of as trying to appeal to a certain type of person or being very cerebral.

Just because I am open to being unconventional doesn’t mean I would pick up anything experimental.

About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close – there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects – and I began the process of winding down the experiments.

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

I felt I would have the most creative freedom making experimental films and teaching, as I had many good examples of people around me who did just that.

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and earned my degree in Experimental Psychology in 1988.

There’s nothing experimental about ‘Kaashmora,’ as it’s a blend of fantasy and entertainment. The only experiment we did was with my makeover in the film.

My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?

The Weeknd’s ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ is very experimental. It’s pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.

I’m totally up for experimental music. I’m up for music that they don’t play on the radio, and I take in all of it. But my thing, the thing that comes most natural to me, is making the stuff that has a melody; it has a soul to it, yet it’s head music.

My work is entirely surgical, and Col. Starr has given me a very interesting task of collecting nerve cases that have had the nerves sewn together. I may also do some experimental work for him.

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.

‘Europe ’72’ was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects in what Sonic Youth has done through the years – being able to get very abstract and very concrete within the same song.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

There’s a lot for us to achieve and a lot more music to explore. I’m not saying we want to start doing experimental prog or something, where it turns into elevator music after a few records, but I don’t think we’ve even scratched the surface.

The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.

For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there – you can create a new normality.

The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.

I’m experimental by nature… always exploring my creativity.

My main inspirations come from early ’90s Trance, the French electro movement round ’06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I’d say it’s some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It’s chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.