Laboratory Quotes - Page 2

• We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?

  Ernest Holmes

  Infinite, Chemist

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes”, p.12, Penguin

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• History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

  Etienne Gilson

  History, Historical, Tests

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• The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

  Theodor Herzl

  House, Secret, Machines

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• Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, even if I do not have a very clear idea of what I am going to do. As I go along with my work I formulate my thought, and from this struggle between what I want and the reality of the material - from this tension - is born an equilibrium.

  Antoni Tapies

  Struggle, Reality, Ideas

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• I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Academia, Found

  Benoit Mandelbrot (2012). “The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick”, p.300, Vintage

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• I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Eugenics, Kind, Chemicals

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• Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Trying, Assistants, Moral

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• Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.

  Asher Peres

  Badass, Space, Quantum

  "Quantum theory: concepts and methods" by Asher Peres, Springer, (p. 373), 1995.

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• I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Dark, Giving

  Marie Curie's instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895, as quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse "Madame Curie: A Biography" translated by Vincent Sheean (p. 137), 1937.

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• I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

  Ajay Naidu

  Facts, Film, Microscopes

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• We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

  Tennessee Williams

  God, Meaningful, Work

  "The Theatre of Tennessee Williams". Volume II,

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• We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience.

  Rachel Carson

  Reality, Numbers, Age

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.91, Beacon Press

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• Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Abuse

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• Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Able, Grants, Ifs

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

  John William Strutt

  Discovery, Library, Firsts

  "Classification and indexing in science". Book by Brian Campbell Vickery, 1958.

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• I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

  Ross Bleckner

  Discovery, Painting, Process

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• I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

  Michio Kaku

  Fiction, Scientist, Physicist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

  Frank Westheimer

  Library, Months

  "Frank H. Westheimer, major figure in 20th century chemistry, dies at 95". news.harvard.edu. April 19, 2007.

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• Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

  Diane Ackerman

  Rowdy, Alligators, Wells

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.64, Vintage

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• In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

  William Ewart Napier

  Tests, Sound, Boards

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• Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Opportunity, People, Growth

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Smell, Noses

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Unlikely, Neat

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• Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.

  Todd Akin

  Unique, May, Information

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• Laboratory tests are the next set of important numbers to know. Here are the key lab test numbers you need to know:   1. Complete blood count   2. General metabolic panel with fasting blood sugar and lipid panel   3. HgA1C   4. Vitamin D   5. Thyroid panel   6. C-reactive protein

  Daniel Amen

  Keys, Blood, Numbers

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