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Laboratory Quotes

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These laboratory quotes come from researchers describing the rooms and setups behind their work, from a two-room radioactivity lab that later expanded to a mountain station built for cleaner experiments. See First quotes for more milestone reflections.

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...

Quotes by Werner Arber

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.

Quotes by Walther Bothe

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

Quotes by Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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.

Quotes by Torsten Wiesel

Attempted Quotes

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...

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco's laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes.

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

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

Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Quotes by Robert Woodrow Wilson

In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

Quotes by Robert Robinson

Chemical Quotes

I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us.

Quotes by Robert Edwards

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.

Quotes by Robert Crippen

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

Quotes by Richard Le Gallienne

I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting...

Quotes by Richard J. Roberts

In the spring of 1948, I was able to join the newly created Brookhaven National Laboratory, which was dedicated to finding peaceful uses for atomic energy.

Quotes by Raymond Davis, Jr.

First Quotes

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.

Quotes by Peter Fraser

Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom.

Quotes by Paul Stamets

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.

Quotes by Nikola Tesla

There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the laboratory, and there is certainly nothing in the clinics available to patients.

Quotes by Michael C. Burgess

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.

Quotes by Mario J. Molina

Me Quotes

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Quotes by Marie Curie

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of scientific work appear in "laboratory" quotes?
They cover fields like electron microscopy, radioactivity research, and ribosome studies, often recalling early career milestones in a specific lab setting.
Is location ever significant to these quotes?
Yes, one recalls building a lab near Pike's Peak, noting that the clean mountain air proved especially favorable for the experiments conducted there.
Do any quotes describe how a laboratory changed over time?
One recalls a radioactivity lab that started with just two rooms before expanding to four once testing needs grew more demanding.
Are these quotes mostly reflective, looking back at a scientist's career?
Yes, most describe formative early experiences, such as taking on an assistantship or a fellowship that shaped a researcher's path.
What other pages complement this topic?
Take a look at Chemical quotes or First quotes for related scientific themes.

Others recall early postdoctoral years spent learning inside someone else's lab before striking out on their own. Browse Chemical quotes or Attempted quotes.