Karl Popper Quotes

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made.

I'm a guy that learns from making mistakes. Sometimes that's not the best way to learn, but that's how I learn.

When you're first starting a show, any show, you learn what works and what doesn't work, and it's a kind of trial and error thing.

On 'MythBusters,' a lot of what we do does not fall into any category of things we have ever done before. There's a lot of problem solving to figure out how to even approach a given problem. A background in science or engineering helps a lot.

I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard to do that, because you always want to go with your impulse thought and you wonder if that's the one, did that work, you know?

there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.

I used my mind, and then eventually the method I used allowed me to master my craft.

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

I don't have the educated knowledge of what textures, colors, shapes and spaces need to be put together to make something just right. I'm learning it by trial and error, which is something that's slow going.

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.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

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.

When you feel you have good although incomplete expertise, start trying things. If it's not working, try something else; maintain an experimental mindset.