Laboratory Quotes

• Natural selection may be unconscious but, as Darwin and his successors made clear, it is the opposite of a random force. It can drive changes in an organism in a very linear, per sis tent fashion—as had been observed in the laboratory, in nature, and in simulations such as the one that modeled eye evolution. Denton was wrong about evolution’s being one big lottery. The correct analogy would be a game of darts in which the players cannot see the target. Some darts will find their mark while the majority will miss—a random process. But the rules of the game eliminate all but the best-thrown darts. Because nature tosses an im mense number of darts—the mutation rate in any single gene in an organism will run in the millions—natural selection has plenty of well-targeted darts to choose from, and the march toward new and complex forms is not so difficult to understand, after all. But presenting an accurate meta phor would not have supported an attack on evolution.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Game
  • Force
  • Changes

• 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
  • Roger Bacon

• I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things.

  

  Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
  • Trying
  • Doors
  • Laboratory

• And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field.

  

  Dean H. Kenyon
  • Misconception
  • Dispose
  • Transmutation

• The more I go, the more I love life. Despite all the downfalls, I think it is extraordinary. I feel like I'm an observer in a science laboratory where you study life, lies and love. I'm delighted to be part of the experience. If you love life everything's possible. When you love life, life loves you back.

  

  Claude Lelouch
  • Life
  • Love
  • Lies

• 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

• 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
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Bible

• We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.

  

  Carol J. Adams
  • Culture
  • Language
  • Animal

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

  

  Asher Peres
  • Space
  • Laboratory
  • Quantum

• 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.

  

  Vladimir Prelog
  • Position
  • Crisis
  • Studies

• I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Night

• It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.

  

  Caryl Parker Haskins
  • Study
  • Individual
  • Resources

• Your life is a kind of laboratory where you're constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you choose. Human beings must create; it's hardwired. The question is, are you consciously creating or only sleepwalking through your human life?

  

  David Emerald Womeldorff
  • Design
  • Human
  • Choose

• Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.

  

  Steven Heighton
  • Boredom
  • Laboratory
  • Enthusiasms

• Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he may be surrounded by all the conveniences money can provide; but if his time is taken from him he will remain sterile.

  

  Walter Bradford Cannon
  • Science
  • Taken
  • Experiments

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

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • History
  • Consequences
  • Laboratory

• Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Progress
  • Harmony
  • Discovery

• 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
  • Problem
  • Suffering
  • Medical

• 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
  • Sound
  • Laboratory
  • Gambit

• Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Train
  • Laboratory
  • Alligators

• It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

  

  George Porter
  • Family
  • Laboratory
  • Collaborators

• 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

• England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.

  

  William Crookes
  • Science
  • Difficult
  • Natural

• The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Evidence
  • Scientist
  • Clandestine

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