Laboratory Quotes

• Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

  Pope Francis

  Reflection

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.117, A&C Black

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• I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.

  John Edward

  Vampire, Used, Hospitals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

  Burton Richter

  Moving, Long, Innovation

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• I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

  Keith Richards

  Silly, Way

  "In quotes: Keith Richards", news.bbc.co.uk. April 4, 2007.

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• I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things.

  Nigel Godrich

  Doors, Trying

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• Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Students, Conversation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

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• Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Library, Serene

  "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire. Volume 2, p. 228, archive.org. 1902.

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• I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

  Jagadish Chandra Bose

  Truth, Law, Words Of Wisdom

  "Oriental Philosophy". Book by Ted Gambordella, 2008.

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• My mind is my laboratory.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind

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• No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Business, Believe, Results

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• Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

  Richard Curtis

  Technology, Risk, Quality

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• If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

  Louis Pasteur

  Physical Science, Ifs

  Some Reflections on Science in France Pt 1

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• Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

  Alan Perlis

  Thinking, Research, Today

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• A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Fairy Stories, Hair

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• [Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

  Edward Teller

  Science, Discovery, Challenges

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• Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

  John Pilger

  War, Vietnam, Experiments

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• Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

  Burton Richter

  Innovation, Renewal, Frontiers

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• A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

  Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

  Science, Firsts, Scientist

  "And I Quote, Revised Edition: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Andrew Frothingham, Ashton Applewhite, and Tripp Evans, p.469, 1992.

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• You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Sorry, Science, Labs

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• Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

  Louis Pasteur

  Soldier, Battle, Arms

  Some Reflections on Science in France, pt.1.

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• Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Imagination, Overcoat

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• That dark laboratory we call the soil.

  Aldo Leopold

  Dark, Soil

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.112, Library of America

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• A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.

  Frank Westheimer

  Couple, Library, Months

  "Murphy, Parkinson, and Peter: Laws for librarians" by Jean E. Crampon, Library Journal 113. no. 17 (p. 41), October 15, 1988.

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• The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

  J. Michael Bishop

  Science, Research, Complicated

  J. Michael BISHOP (2004). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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