Laboratory Quotations

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

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.

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.

I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early.

About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.

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.

I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

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.

In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued my close collaboration with Charles Gilbert on the circuitry of primary visual cortex.

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.

I don't think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems.

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.

Experimental economics is about conducting experiments: bringing economics into the laboratory or creating controlled conditions in the field that allow us to understand better what we are seeing in less controlled circumstances.

The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale.

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.

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.

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.

I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.

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.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe's laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were actively engaged in research.

Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced.

But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

The story of the Web starts in 1980, when Berners-Lee, a young consulting physicist at the CERN physics laboratory near Geneva, grew frustrated with existing methods for finding and transferring information.

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.

Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.

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

I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.

I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'

I teach at Caltech and oversee a research laboratory there. In general, I find that the majority of young people are excited by the prospects of research, but they soon discover that in the current market, many doctorate-level scientists are holding temporary positions or are unemployed.

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.

Porsche is the exception that proves the rule: no other car company of its size has had a chance on its own. The question is, Will Porsche continue to serve as an R.& D. laboratory for the auto industry or will it disappear into Volkswagen?

My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.

Plum Island is an aging laboratory and the department is looking at all the options for establishing the new laboratory. That option includes expanding the current lab at Plum Island.

Nobody would have me in their laboratory for five minutes. I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.

Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe National Forest told your agency not to set the fire, ... I'd like to know why they went ahead and did it.

Since they control their own destiny in the O&O markets, it's a wonderful laboratory for them.

She had similar symptoms and the clinical course of her illness was the same. So it would be very probable that she died of H5N1, but right now we don't have the laboratory test to prove that.

I am encouraged that more work has been done in the last few months compared to before. But still there are many gaps that we need to fill in terms of human and laboratory capacity and infrastructure.

For the summer of 1949, I got a job in the Polaroid laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., just before the Polaroid camera made its public appearance.

We're pleased to implement this new, single pricing policy to better serve all laboratory clients. We are making this important change to our pricing structure so it more accurately reflects our commitment to treat all our customers in a fair and consistent manner.

Hypertrophy is a fairly good laboratory model for certain forms of heart failure, and the PKA signaling pathway is perturbed in certain cases of heart disease. That's why this study may have a high translational and clinical impact.

We make a practice of being on- site for the initial install of every site. OSP engineers have joked with me that I must have worked in the field because the platform is designed to accommodate the 'fat fingers' of the field technician, rather than the manicured hands of a laboratory engineer.

For me, one of the high points is the internal build up of the space station with new laboratory equipment.

I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.

I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.

Laboratory analysis is not yet complete. Analysis by the lab needs to be done very thoroughly and efficiently. This is not easy work.

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.

Sports and other forms of vigorous physical activity provide educational experience which cannot be duplicated in the classroom. They are an uncompromising laboratory in which we must htink and act quickly and efficiently under pressure and then force us to meet our own inadequacies face to face - and do something about them - as nothing else does. In any athletic activity we are thrown upon our own resources to succeed or fail in the face of a strong and immediate challenge. Sports resemble life in a capsule form and the participant quickly learns that his preformance depends upon the development of strength, stammina, self-discipline and a sure and study judgement.

Recent clinical, epidemiological and laboratory evidence suggests that the impact of a pandemic caused by the current H5N1 strain would be similar to that of the 1918-19 pandemic,

Japan is the perfect living laboratory for the proposition that massive fiscal stimulus is not necessarily going to cause interest rates to rise.

Judging by the way it was put together, it is space technology. Experts estimate it cost tens of millions of dollars to make. You can make such a technological wonder only under laboratory conditions.

It has several different kinds of defenses. You could only create this technological wonder in laboratory conditions.

I think the decision by the BRAC commission to reject the Pentagon recommendations to move the Army Research Laboratory from White Sands Missile Range to Maryland was very good news. That, I think, was the good news of the day.

Our water system has submitted the laboratory analysis results to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division in Atlanta and they have authorized us to rescind the advisory, ... Employees of the water system have already been door to door passing out fliers indicating that the water is safe for consumption.

I think we face a revolution in espionage and this has truly been a wake-up call to our laboratory to look at what might have been done and what may be done using the new technologies,

The precise temperature required, however, is not known and may not be the same in laboratory experiments as it is in space, ... Yet it might be that we are seeing evidence for 'planetary' processes such as volcanism within these bodies.

We don't have positive confirmation of H5N1 in the girl yet. The laboratory samples should have reached the UK this morning.

We need more agility in inspection, collection and laboratory analysis, since we've had positive results on the farms that have eliminated the sick plants upon detection,

We formed LANS for the sole purpose of delivering to DOE and to the Laboratory the best combination of scientific and management expertise. Our team is eager to apply our expertise and capabilities to further benefit the Laboratory and the security of our nation.

We need those open-source people. They uncover things. It's a laboratory of computer science. They demand the intellectual right to discuss this.

We received a confirmation from WHO laboratory in Atlanta CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) this morning that the blood of the boy was positive, and this afternoon we also get confirmation from WHO laboratory in Hong Kong that the girl's blood test was also positive on bird flu.

We hope that the federal government is able to respond quickly and effectively. It is becoming quite evident that the broad nature of this outbreak is going to quickly deplete both state and local funds dedicated to the epidemiological efforts, laboratory testing, surveillance and mosquito-control efforts.

We proved they were valid. By linking computerized sleuthing to laboratory experiments to confirm those findings, we expect to be able to eventually fill in many blanks in human protein-protein interactions.

We had known from some previous laboratory work that I had done that there was spectrum information observable in the ultraviolet. We can see a great deal of diversity in the ultraviolet. Now, we're trying to figure out what it all means.

We're a big laboratory in how to absorb so much investment. None of us could have dreamed this would happen this quickly.

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

This store will function as an active laboratory for testing a range of new ideas and merchandise in a fully operational setting. If something doesn't work, we will change it and try something else. And when an innovation resonates with our customers, we will consider introducing it in other stores.

We are not confirming it until laboratory tests come out.

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

We don't ourselves have forensic capability. We have checked in Freetown, and there is no forensic laboratory available, which makes our task somewhat difficult.

We collected evidence and will take it to our laboratory for testing. It's the apartment that we're focusing on.

We consider them as confirmed, even if they have not been laboratory confirmed.

We are working closely with the Nigerian government to (distribute) these resources the best way possible... and America has provided protective equipment, laboratory equipment, supplies and technical assistance.

We know that olive oil made it into our food around 1000 B.C., but it is the first time we have laboratory evidence that it was used in smelting as a fuel.

We know that olive oil made it into our food around 1,000 BC, but it is the first time we have laboratory evidence that it was used in smelting as a fuel.

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

We're meeting to go over laboratory test results and formulate a plan for what we're going to do about this.

Whether or not her death was because of bird flu, we will wait before confirming, as is standard, from a laboratory in Hong Kong where her blood samples were sent to. The results would be known in about six days.

Duane Miller has been the most prolific researcher and inventor I have ever met. He demonstrates great zeal for transferring discoveries from his laboratory to the public through health care professionals.

Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science. Any discovery that touches upon human creation is not simply a matter of scientific inquiry. It is a matter of morality and spirituality as well.

England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.

Earth is the laboratory for future discoveries on Mars. Without examining Earth's extreme environments, we wouldn't understand how processes worked to shape the landscape, chemistry and life at the limits. Without that understanding, we couldn't draw conclusions about how life can develop on other planets. By examining these windows to Mars, scientists step out of the vicarious and into real features on Earth that function similarly to those on Mars.

I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.

These experiments are recorded side by side in his laboratory notebooks.

The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government.

The samples are now expected to arrive at the Community Reference Laboratory late on Friday and so results can only be expected by Saturday afternoon, not before.

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.

We have done our utmost to devise a structure that is fair to all our customers. But we recognize that the new pricing schedule will result in a modest increase for some customers. Our goal is to continue to build value into the products and services we provide. Moving forward, we will work hard to improve cycle times, enhance customer service and make it easier and more convenient for GIA Laboratory clients to conduct business with us.

Film consumption however was so enormous that our laboratory with the film strips strung up for drying sometimes resembled an industrial laundry.

The population should be aware that we have our own sets of clones out there, and that this isn't so sinister when you're talking about working in a laboratory to intentionally create a second or third embryo.

Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presuppose a whole world laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.