Labs famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
-- Alan Kay -
Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.
-- Anthony Atala -
Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.
-- Ben Marcus -
So if there were a container of contaminated urine, and somehow it managed to find its way to someplace a lot of damage could be done. Someone comes up to a lab worker. He knows he’s got the urine. ‘How would you like to have a million dollars?’ … Such things have been known to happen.
-- Benjamin Carson -
The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.
-- Charles Bass -
Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.
-- Charles Bass -
What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure. That once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.
-- Charles Duhigg -
Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.
-- Chris Asplen -
I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the beauty of how we come to know things in biology. Biologists make predictions, then they go out into the field or the lab to see if their predictions hold up. When hundreds of predictions of this sort are fulfilled, a theory reaches the point where it becomes certain, at least on a broad level. And that is where we are with evolution.
-- Darrel R. Falk -
I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.
-- David Eagleman -
Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.
-- Dennis Ritchie -
You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.
-- Ernest Rutherford -
I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.
-- Herb Ritts -
That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision.
-- Ingrid Newkirk -
When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.
-- Ingrid Newkirk -
Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.
-- James Naismith -
I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.
-- James Randi -
A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?
-- Jay Leno -
I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.
-- Jim Benton -
I am accountable for all the actions at my laboratory. I am accountable for all of the policies and procedures of security systems, and I am accountable for the training of the individuals working in the lab. We can't excuse them if they ignore these policies, if they are negligent, we have to hold them accountable as well.
-- John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley -
In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director
-- John Gofman -
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.
-- Jonah Lehrer -
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.
-- Kevin J. Anderson -
My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.
-- Kirsten Gillibrand -
If it is made in a lab then it takes a lab to digest.
-- Kris Carr -
The Googly thing is to launch products early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants - and making it great. The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.
-- Marissa Mayer -
If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.
-- Michael Dell -
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
-- Michael Shermer -
But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.
-- Murray Gell-Mann -
I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
-- Patricia Cornwell -
Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.
-- Peter Agre -
We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer.
-- Phil Knight -
She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better." "Define BETTER with that guy." "Not all fangs and raaaaar.
-- Rachel Caine -
Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging?" "What's snogging?" Shane asked. "Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?
-- Rachel Caine -
The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to.
-- Randall Munroe -
I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
-- Randy Pausch -
It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.
-- Robert B. Laughlin -
My morale has never been higher than since I stopped asking for grants to keep my lab going.
-- Robert Pollack -
At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.
-- Robert T. Bakker -
I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.
-- Steve Wozniak -
During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.
-- Umberto Guidoni -
It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.
-- Veronica Roth -
One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).
-- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.
-- William Mapother -
There were many at Bell Labs and MIT who compared Shannon's insight to Einstein's. Others found that comparison unfair - unfair to Shannon.
-- William Poundstone -
I've had investigations of my lab because people didn't like what I had to say. And when you have investigations and you're doing research, you're shut down for a while. You have to start all over again. So that's one area where I paid a high price.
-- Carl Hart -
Start with a small product in lab environment and grow it!
-- Colin Humphreys -
In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.
-- Jack W. Szostak -
Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?
-- Lene -
In music, we can still record analog and then do the post production in digital. In film, sooner or later, we're not even going to be able to film because they won't be able to process. The labs won't exist anymore. You'll just have to do it with digital.
-- Mathieu Demy -
Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.
-- Chris Carmack -
Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.
-- Thelma Schoonmaker -
I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab.
-- Theo Rossi