Laboratory Quotes

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

  Burton Richter

  Innovation, Renewal, Frontiers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My mind is my laboratory.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind

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

  Etienne Gilson

  History, Historical, Tests

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

  Terence McKenna

  Usage

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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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• 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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• 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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