The phrase "and experiment rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when contrasting two approaches, suggesting that one should choose experimentation over another option.
Example: "We should focus on innovation and experiment rather than sticking to outdated methods."
Alternatives: "and test instead of" or "and try rather than".
These principles were: learning through experience and experiment rather than by rote, proceeding from the concrete to the abstract, mastering one concept before moving to another, learning through repetition, and perfecting knowledge of the native language before attempting to learn foreign tongues.
A conservative thinks in terms of countless minor corrections and improvements based on experience and experiment rather than in terms of a universal, uniform solution based on theory and enforced by inflexible law.
Anyone who produces as much as he does, and continues to experiment rather than play it safe, can't avoid bad work, and Rauschenberg has contributed his share of that.
If there's a strategy guaranteed to position publishers and brands for success on smartphones and tablets in 2012 and beyond, it's flexibility and a willingness to experiment, rather than platform dogmatism.
"My talents lie in the planning and analysis of the experiment rather than with the execution," he declares.
Therefore, 380 mOsm might also directly contribute to SOX9 mRNA stability and abundance in our experiment, rather than elevating promoter activity.
He often described his exhibition galleries — first 291 and later the Intimate Gallery and An American Place — as laboratories for experiment rather than places where pictures were sold, and not infrequently he refused to sell to people whose motives he mistrusted.
Oh I forgot – we had that already: it was called Big Brother and was intended as sociological experiment rather than what it became, a format that unacceptably extends the lifespan of Katie Hopkins' celebrity.
This approach relied on the eye and head movements during an experiment rather than in a separate calibration session.
And yet he won't just go away, which would allow us to pretend that drug use — opportunism of another sort — was a short-lived experiment rather than an inevitable and ongoing challenge.
This is naturally speculative, and should be best seen as a thought experiment rather than as a series of testable hypotheses.
