Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

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• 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
  • Time
  • Tests
  • Laboratory

• In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.

  

  August Krogh
  • Small
  • Communication
  • Direct

• Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Years
  • Laboratory

• All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up 5 percent of our universe.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • Energy
  • Kind
  • Universe

• I joined Bell Laboratories at Crawford Hill in 1963 as part of A. B. Crawford's Radio Research department in R. Kompfner's laboratory.

  

  Robert Woodrow Wilson
  • Department
  • Laboratory
  • Joined

• Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.

  

  Asher Peres
  • Space
  • Laboratory
  • Quantum

• Nowadays, not to say that that doesn't happen, but music is made a lot almost in a laboratory where you get one guy working in one studio, they send the file to another guy in some other part of the world, they send it back and then they send it this way and that way. Musicianship is kind of - there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, some great music is made that way.

  

  Dave Koz
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.

  

  Elizabeth Streb
  • Choice
  • Hearts
  • Investigation

• 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
  • Unique
  • Information
  • Facts

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

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Create
  • Laboratory
  • Chemists

• It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Want
  • Amazing
  • Feel

• I feel like I've been blessed with the ability to do what I do and I guess, I ultimately want to be remembered for being an out-and-out racer; just driving at the seat of my pants and doing it the right way and winning for the right reasons. The right values.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Winning
  • Blessed
  • Driving

• I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Gold
  • Clothes
  • Jewelry

• If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.

  

  Artie Lange
  • History
  • Black
  • Woman

• The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Business
  • Education
  • Sciences

• I want to reach out to everybody with my music and my album, but you're never going to please everybody. Someone's going to say something because, you know, it's an opinionated industry.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Music
  • Know
  • Because

• If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Creativity
  • Sound
  • Record

• I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.

  

  Mohamed Al-Fayed
  • Building
  • Customers
  • Pyramids

• 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
  • Laboratory
  • Usage