Freeman Dyson Quotes

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

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

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

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

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.

Everything is an experiment.

With innovation, there is always risk.

I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

I love my mistakes. That's how you learn! You have to keep making mistakes. That's how you expand!

Sometimes you don't know what is it you want to do until you try it.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.