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Laboratory Quotes

Where discovery actually happens.

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.

The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.

Quotes by Marie Curie

At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.

Quotes by Luis Walter Alvarez

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.

Quotes by Luis Walter Alvarez

I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

Quotes by Kevin J. Anderson

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

Quotes by John Pilger

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.

Quotes by John Cameron

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Quotes by Jack Steinberger

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into...

Quotes by Ivan Pavlov

The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.

Quotes by Ivan Pavlov

I grew up in my father's laboratory and played beneath the chemical benches until I was tall enough to play on them.

Quotes by Hope Jahren

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.

Quotes by Haldan Keffer Hartline

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

Quotes by Frits Zernike

Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.

Quotes by Frank Macfarlane Burnet

History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.

Quotes by Elizabeth Coleman

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.

Quotes by Donald Barthelme

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

Quotes by Chris Ofili

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.

Quotes by Carol W. Greider

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Quotes by Antoine Lavoisier

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

Quotes by Anthony Fauci

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.