Top 439 Laboratory Quotes & Sayings

My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out what I believe.

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

When I was in graduate school at MIT I was trying to think about how to develop software and systems for farmers and villagers in India. In the process of doing that, I realized that my reference point was internal to the laboratory, rather than in the communities that I was wanting to serve. I realized that I could no longer assume what a good technology looks like from inside the laboratory; instead, I had to be in the world with people. Not just designing for them but with them.

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

My mind is my laboratory.

One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.

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.

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice.

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut.

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.

Scientists want full proof under laboratory conditions. And the answer is very simple: When Im put under pressure, I cant perform. Even the phenomenon Im most known for. When Im on stage, Im not under pressure and it happens. In other important places, it happens. But in a laboratory where I really want it to happen, its very hard for me.

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

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

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.

Although we often discussed the idea of research on the nature of antigen recognition by T cells in the laboratory in the late Seventies while I was still in Basel, the real work did not start until the early Eighties in my new laboratory at M.I.T.

The laboratory where we stored all our negatives went bankrupt overnight following the Asian economic crisis in 1997. So, on short notice, we had to retrieve all the materials in the middle of the night before the debtor-receiver took over the laboratory the next morning.

Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

The selection of MediLab came after an extensive evaluation process. The laboratory in Zambia presented many challenges such as rapidly expanding services and capacity, the need to coordinate laboratory services for 16 and soon to be 24 clinics in the Lusaka district alone, the need to automate recording and dissemination of results and the need for a robust, expandable, user friendly and technically supported LIMS system. The technology and international experience of MediSolution made MediLab an obvious choice.

When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used in a chemical laboratory and those used in a chemical laboratory, and those which serve for experiments in physics, become radioactive in a short time and act upon photographic plates through black paper. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes all become radioactive.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

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

I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15.

The Alchemy's secret key is hidden in the laboratory of the man and woman.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

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

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.

To watch Lin Manuel Miranda... you could not make a better spokesperson for Broadway in a laboratory.

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

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.

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.

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

The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

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

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.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

I'm not interested in constraining human beings like rats in a laboratory.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

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.

From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! [While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.]

There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

The library is the mathematician's laboratory.

School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.