Laboratory Quotes - Page 15

• In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs-and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Song, Cancer, Heart

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• Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Cutting, Order, Connections

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• The AMA virtually stopped the Rife treatment in 1939, first by threatening the physicians using Rife's instrument, then by forcing Rife into court....During the period 1935 to early 1939, the leading laboratory for electronic or energy medicine in the USA, in New Jersy, was independently verifying Rife's discoveries...(this) laboratory was "mysteriously" burned to the ground.....Rife's treatment was ruthlessly suppressed by the AMA's Morris Fishbein.

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Discovery, Energy Medicine

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• Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

  George Will

  War, Mean, Liberty

  George F. Will (1992). “Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990”

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• We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

  Loren Eiseley

  Teacher, Learning, School

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.43, Library of America

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• FBI laboratory scientists said Sunday they have determined that the anthrax mailed to Senate offices last fall was fresh. They say it's only two years old. If the stuff is two years old and it's still fresh, it's not anthrax, it's Velveeta.

  Argus Hamilton

  Fall, Sunday, Years

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• It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Would Be, Politics, Tomorrow

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• Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

  Donald Barthelme

  War, World, Formal

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• We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory of the Alchemist.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Personality, Alchemist, Gold

  Daath Gnosis, Samael Aun Weor (2014). “The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of the Tarot and Kabalah (Bilingual)”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Practice, Research, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Book, Car, Calling

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• Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Men, Cities, Space

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• There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the laboratory, and there is certainly nothing in the clinics available to patients.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Cells, Patient, Treatment

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• I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

  Sydney Brenner

  School, Might Use, Trying

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• The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

  Charles Bass

  Energy, Defense, Program

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• Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise no one could have deflected me from my path. ... The Chairman of the Physics Department, looking at this record, could only say 'That A- confirms that women do not do well at laboratory work'. But I was no longer a stubborn, determined child, but rather a stubborn, determined graduate student. The hard work and subtle discrimination were of no moment.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.

  Linus Pauling

  Crazy, Science, Boys

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• In my own house I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know. Although I had received no technical education I made myself master of chemistry and of the laboratory, which proved of lasting value.

  Charles M. Schwab

  House, Evening, Steel

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• The trains are central to Bombay just as the subway is central to New York; they are the great social laboratory of that city. And today, they became a charnel-house.

  Suketu Mehta

  Today, Train

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

  Brian Chesky

  Office, Want, Labs

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• I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

  Hannes Alfven

  Way, Physics, Should

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• The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Thinking, Mind, Vagrants

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• I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

  Molly Ivins

  Thinking, Government, Texas

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• Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Lying, Men, Discovery

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• The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Democracy, States

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