1. experiment - Noun
2. experiment - Verb
Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.
Experience.
To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.
To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEverybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. David Cronenberg
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher
The true method of knowledge is experiment. William Blake