Peter M. Brant Quotes

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

I just like to experiment.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

We especially need imagination in science.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

I'm still experimenting.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

We love experimentation. That's where the gold nuggets come from.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.