Top 177 Experimental Quotes

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.
Wilhelm Wundt
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.
Edward Lawrie Tatum
As for me, I want to have fun while I’m working. Now not everyone thinks physics is fun, but I do. I think experimental physics is especially fun, because not only do you get to solve puzzles about the universe or on Earth, there are really cool toys in the lab.
Donna Strickland
Ironically, my tastes aren’t that experimental, and I wouldn’t describe my music on the surface as being overtly experimental, either.
Jon Hopkins
I had the benefit of going to a really good high school on Long Island. I went to Shoreham-Wading River High School, which kind of started as an experimental public school back in the 60s and 70s. It had a bunch of teachers there with a unique teaching philosophy.
Adam Conover
My plays aren’t stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.
Suzan-Lori Parks
I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he’s involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.
Kim Gordon
I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
Adam Lambert
My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who was fantastic. We eventually got our own place, and my mother started learning to cook. But it was also the ’70s, so she was very experimental, and, well – thank God we had a dog.
Debi Mazar
My first year making music was very experimental. I was trying to find my sound. My second year, I was more in my element. I knew what type of production I wanted to go over and the topics I wanted to address.
Lil Peep
Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.
Karl Ferdinand Braun
There is a constant projection of stereotypes and ‘saas-bahu’ sagas that keep getting popular as opposed to some experimental storylines.
Hiten Tejwani
You don’t do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.
Isabella Rossellini
I’m trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
Harvey Pekar
Well, I think music for kids is never anything but expe

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
Fred Frith
I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment – to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
Peter Gabriel
I want to do experimental films.
Manini Mishra
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
I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
Joanna Newsom
You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we’re trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles.
Edward Witten
Prince turned experimental music into pop music. ‘When Doves Cry,’ the whole ‘Purple Rain’ soundtrack – he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt ‘House of Balloons’ was.
The Weeknd
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
Rainn Wilson
In the last few years I’ve been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
Serj Tankian
The inspiring thing is that people are often more experimental with their desserts than other courses. It allows me to be more creative and excite people.
Johnny Iuzzini
My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art to experimental results. I like complexity and am delighted by the unexpected. Ideas interest me.
Peter C. Doherty
People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
Jacqueline Novogratz
The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immunity, but for reasons both historical and of experimental convenience, antibody is likely to remain the touchstone of immunological theory.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
I’d come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making ‘Good Will Hunting’ was experimental because I didn’t know how to do it.
Gus Van Sant
I have never shied away from experimental roles.
Urmila Matondkar
Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music.
Anoushka Shankar
We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It’s a miracle that we get anything right.
Niall Ferguson
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.
Gus Van Sant
Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don’t want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I’ll read about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
There was a time when pop music and rock music were really reaching for the stars and were not ashamed to be experimental. You think of a song like ‘Shout’ by Tears for Fears. That’s a massive global No. 1 hit, and yet the subject matter is very dark.
Steven Wilson
I’m the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.
Eileen Myles
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
Murray Gell-Mann
I don’t think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it’s suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn’t sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange – which is what many economists think it is.
John Lanchester
You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.
Richard Branson
I’m looking forward to real big advances in autopilot capability. I’m also expecting companies all over the world starting to deploy mapping and experimental cars for taxi services. You’ll see a lot more activity around that.
Jensen Huang
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought ‘The Fable’ was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked ‘Tender Is the Night,’ an experimental novel.
Joyce Carol Oates
Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other.
Theodore William Richards
At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).
Simon van der Meer
I always leaned toward free jazz… experimental jazz and progressive jazz. I feel like jazz is just part of the flavor and palette that you have as a musician to experiment with.
Arturo O’Farrill
I don’t know about the public and the industry, but I am an all-time Sanjay Leela Bhansali fan. His cinema is completely stylized and commercial and yet hugely experimental.
Deepti Naval
I am not revolutionary or experimental, but I am curiou

I am not revolutionary or experimental, but I am curious and love to explore and indulge in life.
Padmapriya Janakiraman
I’m a big fan of horror films, particularly ‘Friday the 13th.’ It’s one of the only genres that weaves abstract experimental techniques into the mainstream; having to be spooky requires a little more creativity.
Weyes Blood
I think everything’s experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It’s no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music – until you say, ‘This is my song, or this is my composition’ – it’s all experimental, whether you like it or not.
Bill Laswell
There’s not a formula that I’m following; it’s just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called ‘Hardcore Henry,’ and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
Haley Bennett
In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories.
Robert Huber
My mother is a southern lady with short dark hair and a wary, blue-eyed smile. She is also an experimental chemist and teaches a college course entitled The Chemistry of Cooking.
Andrew Sean Greer
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.
Patty Jenkins
A person doing experimental music must be responsible for the results of the experiments. They could be very dangerous emotionally.
Florian Schneider