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  • I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. -- Antoine Lavoisier
  • All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. -- Tennessee Williams
  • 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
  • In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering. -- Ernest Lawrence
  • 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
  • Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms - recombinant DNA. -- James D. Watson
  • Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don't fucking drink it. -- Rory Freedman
  • What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun. -- Arthur Eddington
  • Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory. -- Eugene Mirman
  • Laboratory experiments, field observations and atmospheric modeling calculations have now established that chemical reactions occurring on PSC particles play a central role in polar ozone depletion. -- Mario J. Molina
  • The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research. -- James Cronin
  • First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexters Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones. -- Craig McCracken
  • First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones. -- Craig McCracken
  • On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. -- Ahmed Zewail
  • The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms. -- Walther Bothe
  • Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics. -- Aaron Klug
  • With leading research universities, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and private companies like Blue Sun working on developing alternative fuels, Colorado is poised to become an international leader in clean energy. -- Ken Salazar
  • I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us. -- Robert Crippen
  • For the moment, he's off plotting his Igoresque revenge. I don't know about you, but I have this image of him rubbing his hands together and laughing like Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory. (Kyrian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits. -- Ernest Lawrence
  • The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages. -- Clive James
  • In the 1950s, the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva was lucky enough to receive each summer for several months the visit of Jean Weigle. He was the former professor of experimental physics at the University of Geneva. -- Werner Arber
  • 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
  • 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 G. Amen
  • The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory. -- Brendan I. Koerner
  • On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had two prototype electron microscopes requiring much attention. -- Werner Arber
  • At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field. -- Mildred S. Dresselhaus
  • I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science. -- Burton Richter
  • Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire. -- John Edward
  • History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas. -- Elizabeth Coleman
  • 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
  • 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
  • Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with your own imagination. -- Lorraine Moller
  • There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder. -- Allen Frances
  • I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us. -- Robert Edwards
  • The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion. -- Chris Ofili
  • Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness. -- Russell Targ
  • 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
  • Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this. -- Peter Agre
  • The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful. -- Francis Collins
  • It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public. -- Jerry Lewis
  • The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought. -- Peter Fraser
  • The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century -- Gary Taubes
  • Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science. -- Burton Richter
  • 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
  • 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
  • The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. -- Timothy Noah
  • It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species. -- Robert Edwards
  • It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country. -- Louis D. Brandeis
  • I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents. -- Mos Def
  • I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. -- Alexander Fleming
  • The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science. -- Alton Brown
  • Love enmeshes you in your partner's unique set of karmic complications, so make sure you're very interested in his or her problems. Love is a laboratory where you can uncover secrets about yourself that have previously been hidden, so be ravenously curious. -- Rob Brezsny
  • It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial. -- Michael Moritz
  • We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun. -- Thomas Marshburn
  • We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish. -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable! -- Sam Neill
  • Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature. -- Brian Greene
  • But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to remove their shells so that they can wire electrodes to the turtles' skin in order to monitor their increasing terror at the loss of their shells. -- Mary Gaitskill
  • 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
  • Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal. -- Ayn Rand
  • All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or small, the neighborhood fashionable or downtrodden. Rather, we delight in the experiences we shared as a family. The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that profit by supplying laboratory animals and equipment, have been able to convince legislators and the public that opposition comes from uninformed fanatics who consider the interests of animals more important than the interests of human beings. -- Peter Singer
  • He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment. -- Bill Rancic
  • My mind is my laboratory. -- Albert Einstein
  • The library is the mathematician's laboratory. -- Paul Halmos
  • That dark laboratory we call the soil. -- Aldo Leopold
  • Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war. -- John Pilger
  • I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government. -- Molly Ivins
  • I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
  • I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable -- Benoit Mandelbrot
  • The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction. -- Ivan Pavlov
  • The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism. -- J. Michael Bishop
  • Magic is a science.Miracle is the work.Mind is a laboratory. -- Toba Beta
  • I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15. -- Andy Weir
  • Life is a playground and a laboratory; avoid neglecting one for the other. -- T.F. Hodge
  • A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work. -- Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
  • Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory. -- Asher Peres
  • We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create? -- Ernest Holmes
  • The Alchemy's secret key is hidden in the laboratory of the man and woman. -- Samael Aun Weor
  • History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. -- Etienne Gilson
  • The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth. -- Jagadish Chandra Bose
  • Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health. -- Aldo Leopold
  • I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory. -- Keith Richards
  • Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow. -- Alan Perlis
  • Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear. -- Henry Edward Armstrong
  • A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library. -- Frank Westheimer
  • I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things. -- Nigel Godrich
  • They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. -- Tennessee Williams
  • Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. -- Jane Jacobs
  • Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory. -- John William Strutt
  • No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself. -- Albert Einstein
  • If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard. -- Frank Sinatra
  • Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
  • [Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. -- Edward Teller
  • Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature. -- Alfred Harker
  • I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory. -- Sylvia Earle
  • As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory. -- Andrew Weil
  • Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others. -- Richard E. Byrd
  • I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS. -- Anthony S. Fauci
  • Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom. -- Paul Stamets
  • The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels -- Theodor Herzl
  • The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development. -- Narendra Modi
  • I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory. -- Ajay Naidu
  • A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts. -- Isaac Asimov
  • 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
  • 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
  • For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? -- Milan Kundera
  • Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month? -- Frank Westheimer
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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