Laboratory Quotes - Page 3

• 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

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• I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Fashion, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Research, Possibility, Funding

  Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.110, Princeton Architectural Press

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• Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors.

  Woody Harrelson

  Animal, Doors, Years

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• We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

  Keith Richards

  Matter, Life Is, Chemicals

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• It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

  Gavin Bryars

  Mistake, Trying, New Work

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• prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.

  Margaret Halsey

  Hands, Giving, Disease

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.

  Ken Wilber

  Giving, Meditation, Mind

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.83, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

  Jay McInerney

  Crazy, Mean, Interesting

  "The beautiful and the damned". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.

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• In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory; only there can he seek explanations of life in the normal and pathological states by means of experimental analysis.

  Claude Bernard

  Life, Mean, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Hands, Drug

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• The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Use, Acid, Reactions

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• I am accountable for all the actions at my laboratory. I am accountable for all of the policies and procedures of security systems, and I am accountable for the training of the individuals working in the lab. We can't excuse them if they ignore these policies, if they are negligent, we have to hold them accountable as well.

  John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

  Security Systems, Policies And Procedures, Training

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• Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

  Henry Edward Armstrong

  Science, Disappear, Should

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• Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Men, Mind

  Wendell Berry (2012). “The Long-Legged House”, p.81, Counterpoint Press

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• What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Science

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• As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Rats, Sophomore

  Steven Pinker (2015). “Words and Rules: The Ingredients Of Language”, p.84, Basic Books

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• History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going on vacation or the team at Odeon trying a little side project that allowed people to communicate in real time as long as their message was 140 characters or less (which ultimately of course became Twitter), the unintended is often the transformational.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Real, Team, Character

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance. The other ants follow the path immediately in order to benefit from the finding and continue to do so as long as the supply is rich.

  Bengt I. Samuelsson

  Science, Discovery, Order

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• When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through all time going on in such vast proportions,-when physicists study the laws of moisture, of clouds and storms, in past periods as well as in the present,-when, in short, geologists and zoologists are chemists and physicists, and vice versa,-then we shall learn more of the changes the world has undergone than is possible now that they are separately studied.

  Louis Agassiz

  Science, Past, Clouds

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• They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Humanity

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• There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Health, Men

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• In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Science, Men

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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• It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution doctrine rests, and the observational and laboratory evidence that bears on the problem of origins, he/she will conclude that there are substantial reasons for doubting the truth of this doctrine. Moreover, I believe that a scientifically sound creationist view of origins is not only possible, but it is to be preferred over the evolutionary one.

  Dean H. Kenyon

  Believe, Views, Doubt

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• Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Solitude, Habit, Excellent

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.139, Island Press

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