Experimentation is Experience

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. - Albert Einstein

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. - Claude Bernard

I reeverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. - Jack Steinberger

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. - Leonardo da Vinci

The true method of knowledge is experiement. -William Blake

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life. - Erasmus Darwin

I am my own experiement. I am my own work of art - Madonna

No, life has not disaappointed 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 Nietsche

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun. - Mary Lou Cook

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - Charles Ives

"La Cucaracha"

La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar
Porque no tiene, porque le falta
Marijuana que fumar.
The cockroach, the cockroach
Now he can't go traveling
Because he doesn't have, because he lacks
Marijuana to smoke.

Folksong

Strengths and weaknesses

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. - Knute Rockne

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao Tzu

A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts. - Gandhi

It never ceases to amaze me; we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. - Marcus Aurelius

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance? - Abdul Kalam

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - Seneca

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. - Abraham Lincoln

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination... - Maya Angelou

There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as strength. - Leo Muir

Neglected, then renewed

I have been negligent in keeping up with posting my ongoing collection of quotes. So in order to start the ball off rolling again I have chosen to share some quotes on negligence and renewal.

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through al her best resolves. - Owen Feltham

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline. - Jane Brody

No profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. - Publilius Syrus

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be worn out is to be renewed. - Lao-tzu

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected - John Locke (1632-1704)

Four things come not back - the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity. - Arabian Proverb

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. - Shana Alexander