Max von Sydow Quotes

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

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.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

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

I'm still experimenting.

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

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

As a young man, I experimented with everything.

I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in.

Everything is an experiment.

I just kind of go by the theory of, 'Don't knock it until you try it.'

When kids are really little, they destroy everything.

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

I just like to experiment.

Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

I'm just trying to experiment with a lot of different stuff and see what comes out of it.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.