Terence McKenna Quotes

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

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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

I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistakes as a part of the learning process. I prefer a dash of daring and persistence to perfection.

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

Everything is an experiment.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

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

With innovation, there is always risk.

I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens.

It's not just exciting to build things but to explore new fields and to recognize what comes with that is a lot of uncertainty.

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

Play is experimenting with chance.

When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.