Laboratory Quotes

“I swear to Vishnu, if this doesn’t work, I’m going to stab you in the throat with a Pipette.”
― Kyoko M., Of Cinder and Bone

“A good little bookstore…is a laboratory for our coming together.”
― Ross Gay

“Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.”
― Asher Peres, Quantum Theory: Concepts and Methods

“Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson: Writings

“I don't like museums, I like labs.”
― Amit Kalantri

“In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were.”
― J.D. Bernal, The extension of man: A history of physics before 1900

“Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.”
― Denton Cooley

“Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.”
― Henry Edward Armstrong

“The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“The approach required more persistence than imagination, but it produced remarkable results.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Imagination is the research laboratory of discovery.”
― Steven Magee

“The soil beneath her smelled rich and wet;the only sound in the absolute silence was her breathing. Grace stood still, as still as she possibly could and listened to the quiet, to the stillness, absorbing the strange beauty. She became aware of her heart beating, pumping blood throughout her body. As she stood here alone at sunrise on this mountain, it was more than dreamlike. Accustomed to a world of limestone-tiled hallways lit by tungsten-filament halogen that smelled of artificial lemon and barbecue chemicals and digitized french fry-flavor molecules, Grace felt that she had stumbled into another world. This high peaceful place, it was heavenlike.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, The Orchard

“I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to live my life again, I would always remain in my laboratory, for the greatest joy of my life has been to accomplish original scientific work, and, next to that, to lecture to a set of intelligent students.”
― Jean-Baptiste Dumas

“Your potentials contain local elements that can react with your passion to produce global compounds for the solution of the world’s problems. Go and do it.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“To fall in love twice, with the same person, you need to grow another heart. That's all I do in my secret underground laboratory at night...”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“It was as if a mad scientist had sold all of his important tools and chemicals at a yard sale, leaving a makeshift laboratory of scrap materials that the neighbors didn't want.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people are limited by the chair system. Even if students cannot become assistant professors at an early age they should be encouraged to do original work.

...Industry is more likely to put its research effort into its daily business. It is very difficult for it to become involved in pure chemistry. There is a need to encourage long-range research, even if we don't know its goal and if its application is unknown.”
― Kenichi Fukui

“An egg would rendezvous with a sperm one not-so-romantic night in a petri-dish, and cellular division would begin under the watchful eye of some goggle-wearing geek.”
― Emmie White, Captive

“Turning a corner, she encountered the smell of fried chicken. One of the test kitchens had been working on a new product for a fast-food client, developing a proprietary sauce for a new kind of sandwich to compete with one KFC had recently brought to market. It had no bun, but rather two pressed chicken segments deep-fried in a shortening of processed lard and beef fat, wrapped around thick shingled bacon and a slice of provolone, and smothered in this hydrogenated oil-based sauce.”
― Jeffrey Stepakoff, The Orchard

“There is no time to discuss the fact that this horrible, horrible system is not working, or to assert that we are neither criminals or machines. There are only endless medication orders, given by exhausted people with nobody better than us to depend on.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“Utility workers are the laboratory rats of the 5G wireless radiation industry.”
― Steven Magee

“It was incredible how silent it was in the main laboratory, compared to the madness he just escaped.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“The latest generation of irradiated university graduates are the laboratory rats of the 5G cell phone industry.”
― Steven Magee

“I am the inadvertent laboratory rat of professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“To a scientist physics is philosophy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“On closer inspection, however, the event in question turns out to be rather more mysterious, rather more of an unidentified 'historical' object. The thawing out of the countries of the East is without doubt an extraordinary turn of events. But what exactly happens to freedom when it is defrosted? Such an operation must be a hazardous one, its outcome uncertain (quite apart from the fact that you are not supposed to refreeze what you have once defrosted). The USSR and the Eastern bloc constituted not just a deep-freeze for freedom but also a laboratory, an experimental environment in which freedom was isolated and subjected to very high pressures. The West, on the other hand, is merely a museum - or, more accurately, a dump - for freedom and the Rights of Man. If deep-freezing was the distinctive (and negative) mark of the Eastern universe, the ultra-fluidity of our Western universe is even more disreputable, because thanks to the liberation and liberalization of our mores and beliefs, the problem of freedom can simply no longer be posed. Rather, it is virtually resolved. In the West, freedom - the Idea of freedom - has died its fine death; all the recent commemorations have clearly shown that the idea of freedom is gone. In the East it has been murdered - but there is no such thing as the perfect crime.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“The world is a laboratory, there are the users and the used”
― Oluseyi Akinbami

“There are lots of stories around of how COVID-19 emerged into humans. Secret China laboratory leak, jumping the species barrier, government engineered virus, and so on. I wrote a book about the environment called “Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease” that I first published in 2010. I was aware human disease was going to spiral out of control as the environment changed. I was not surprised a decade later we were in a global pandemic!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Fieldwork is where theory meets truth.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero