Laboratory Quotes - Page 16

• Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

  John Dewey

  Knowledge, Mean, Information

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.189, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

  George Porter

  Happiness, Home, Wife

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• What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.

  Arthur Eddington

  May, Sun, Difficult

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• Opportunities for kindness are flowing past us continuously, during the hours we spend at home, in the office or store or shop or laboratory where we work, as we walk along the street, as we drive hither and yon, as we travel by train or plane or bus - in short, wherever we are and whatever we are doing.

  David Dunn

  Kindness, Home, Opportunity

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• If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Art, Taken

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• Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Students, Conversation

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• The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Democracy, States

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

  Molly Ivins

  Thinking, Government, Texas

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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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• 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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